“A democracy, we have been taught for many a year, is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. What is a man?” she asks. “A man is a person. What is a person? A person is a human being—a person has a soul. Is woman a human being? Yes, a woman is a human being. Has woman a soul?” she asks. “Yes, woman has a soul.”[7] She goes on to lay out her case that men and women are equal, because they are both human beings. We can’t have a democracy without men, and we can’t have a democracy without half of the democracy’s citizens—women, she says.
