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I stand before you, Jade, as an ardent feminist, defender of women's rights. It is to call for a profound change in society and more equality that I am addressing you. If, acts of violence or not, we have already brought about changes, they were for an honourable cause, but they have not brought us to full equality between men and women. We want to make our voices heard, in order to change these inequalities.
Two centuries ago, women were considered an inferior race, who only thought of their husbands' happiness and could not aspire to a career. A century later, however, women woke up from their enslavement, they shook the chains of men's slavery. Women understood that they had been lied to, that they had been used, and demanded the abdication of this modern slavery. They came together, and they got rid of the hut in which society had placed them. What a great step for our country to move towards greater equality!
And this march that was then initiated never stopped. Over the years, the women's movement was only organized, strikes were held. Until their demands were accepted.
Discrimination can only revolt you by my side. Is it a blood-stained society that you want to maintain? The blood of so many women who have shed in uprisings, the blood of those who dared to say no, the blood of mothers but also of women like me. Our revolt, you muzzled it like the slaves did. Liberty, equality, brotherhood... we believed in it. Equality for all.
Our country is now a Republic and yet the people die, demonstrations are repressed, men keep the best side of the stick while women are forced to resort to prostitution. We have the right to demand that our rights be equal.
You are clinging to the image of an ageing culture, to outdated traditions, while the country has tasted equality, modernity.
We are being asked to shut up again. We do not want war, but only the right to keep what we have won in sweat and blood: equal rights for women and men.
I am asking you for a country in which our children can walk serenely under the banner of equality, a country that would be a beacon for other nations.
