Denial of Rights Quotes
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. This is an excellent example of political sarcasm. Read literally, this quotation indicates that he was opposed to women’s suffrage, and was a fairly extreme sexist. What he was doing however, is stating publicly the argument that many men made at the time—especially those who were not highly literate or well-educated. By stating the argument of the opposition, he allows fair minded people to be exposed to views that they might otherwise not be exposed to. Many sexist men at the time read the quotation and, not appreciating Twain’s sarcasm, concluded that Twain, unlike most of the “egghead intellectuals” of the day was an opponent of the increasingly militant feminists. In actuality, Mark Twain was a strong feminist. See {630191}, {630192}, & {630193}.
The mental conditioning and brainwashing that was forced upon slaves in the American Chattel Slavery system was a major factor in the poor intellectual, analytical, emotional, and egocentric and moral development of Black slaves.
In this famous declaration, Stanton summarized the relative status of men and women in the society at that time. Women then could not control their own property, have their own money. “Chastisement” referred to the fact that a husband could then legally discipline his wife physically and beat her if she were not suvviciently obedient.
This was before the Iranian Revolution and the Government of the Shah was attempting to modernize and allow any Iranian citizen who was otherwise qualified to be judges including women and people of other religions.
Lopez had come from Portugal and had been living in Rhode Island for 9 years and was active in shipping, whaling and candle making. He, and another Jew, Issac Elizer, petitioned the Rhode Island Superior Court for naturalization and citizenship rights. The court turned them down and they appealed to the Rhode Island Assembly—then not only the legislature but the highest court in the colony. The assembly came up with a compromise. The Jews were allowed to continue to live and work in Rhode Island but they could not hold public office or vote. They told the Superior Court to reconsider the case however as Lopez and Elizer were model citizens—but for religion just the kind the colony wanted. This case and many others were known to the founding fathers who were determined to put a stop to the practice of conditioning voting and office holding rights on adhering to the particular sect of the majority of the colony. Lopez and Elizer then appealed again to the Superior Court.
Yuliy Osipovich Martov. The Menshevik party was the communist opposition to the Bolsheviks. There was a civil war ongoing and the Bolsheviks had established the tribunal where accused were not allowed to call witnesses in their defense, and the judges were party bureaucrats with no juries.
Miscegenation means race mixing. Right wing extremists of the time were often fascist and racist as well as politically very conservative. Note that Pegler’s “denial of personal rights to individuals” did not include the laws against racial intermarriage and the right of two individuals to marry whom they pleased. At the time many of the Southern states had laws against racial intermarriage—laws that were subsequently declared unconstitutional by the lower courts and upheld by the Supreme Court.
