As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
The idea of equal rights was in the air.
During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.
Were there no contrariety of interests, nothing would be more simple and easy than to form and preserve free institutions. The right of suffrage alone would be a sufficient guarantee. It is the conflict of opposing interests which renders it the most difficult work of man.
The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.