Anna-Karin Klockar - The Rights of Woman

Anna-Karin Klockar
The Rights of Woman
(nr1 from Speeches)
The text is an excerpt from "Declaration of the Rights of Woman" by Olympe de Gouges - Paris 1791
Norrlands Nations Kammarkör
Francesco Acquista, conductor
World Choir Games 2023 - Gangneung (Republic of Korea)
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Man, are you capable of being just? It is a woman who poses the question; you will not deprive her of that right at least. Tell me, what gives you sovereign empire to oppress my sex? Your strength? Your talents?
Man alone has raised his exceptional circumstances to a principle. Bizarre, blind, bloated with science and degenerated - in a century of enlightenment and wisdom - into the crassest ignorance, he wants to command as a despot a sex which is in full possession of its intellectual faculties; he pretends to enjoy the Revolution and to claim his rights to equality in order to say nothing more about it.