Founding fathers Quote by Howard Zinn

They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy.…

— Howard Zinn

Women are part of the constitution.

— Ashraf Ghani

“Here's what we're not taught [about the Declaration and Constitution]: Those words at the time they were written were blazingly, electrifyingly subversive. If you…

— Naomi Wolf

“The political history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America shows that our Constitution emerged from the efforts of a whole people to resolve the conflict…

— Noel B. Reynolds

“They were now representatives of something much larger than themselves - a way of life, a shared set of values. Liberty was perhaps the…

— Daniel James Brown

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and…

— Louis D. Brandeis

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were…

— Cokie Roberts

“Americans became so thoroughly democratic that much of the period's political activity, beginning with the Constitution, was diverted to finding means and devices to…

— Gordon S. Wood

“And many women, whether or not they are politically active, ideologically committed feminists, or whether they have simply considered the lives of their mothers…

— Rebecca Traister

“Social progress and changes of historical period take place in proportion to the advance of women toward liberty, and social decline occurs as a…

— Charles Fourier

“Liberty yes - but equality for all men? The end of all distinctions of social class? Such thinking smacked of anarchy, and of the…

— Lynne Withey