Wanaume na Wanawake ni Wanadamu Wenye Maadili na Wanaowajibika
Angela Y. Davis: Both men and women are humans who are moral and accountable
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KISWAHILI
"Ilikamilishwa mnamo 1838, "Barua za Usawa wa Jinsia..." ya Sarah Grimke ina moja ya uchambuzi wa kina wa hali ya wanawake ulioandikwa na mwanamke huko Marekani. Kuweka mawazo yake sita [kosa: 1838 hadi 1855 ni miaka 17] kabla ya kuchapishwa kwa risala inayojulikana sana ya Margaret Fuller kuhusu wanawake [1855], Sarah alipinga dhana kwamba ukosefu wa usawa kati ya jinsia uliamriwa na Mungu.
"Wanaume na wanawake waliumbwa sawa [aliandika]: wote ni wanadamu wenye maadili na wanaowajibika"…akisisitiza badala yake kwamba "chochote kinachofaa kwa mwanamume ni sawa kwa mwanamke."
- Angela Y. Davis, mwanaharakati wa kisiasa, profesa, na mwandishi
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
“Completed in 1838, Sarah Grimke’s “Letters on the Equality of the Sexes…” contain one of the first extensive analyses of the status of women authored by a woman in the United States. Setting down her ideas six [sic: 1838 to 1855 is 17] years before the publication of Margaret Fuller’s well-known treatise on women [1855], Sarah disputed the assumption that inequality between the sexes was commanded by God.
“Men and women were created equal [she wrote]: they are both moral and accountable human beings”...insisting instead that “whatever is right for man is right for woman.”
- Angela Y. Davis is a political activist, professor, and author
KISWAHILI: Asante na tutaonana tena,
Mmerikani
ENGLISH TRANSLATION: Thank you and may we see each other again,
Mmerikani
Chanzo (source): Davis, Angela Y. Women, Race & Class. New York: Vintage Books, 1981, page 29.