![]() ![]() ![]() From this opinion, she was sent to the guillotine for being a counterrevolutionary and being denounced as an “unnatural” woman.She was strong opponent of slavery, stating it was founded on greed and blind prejudice.She encouraged women to seek out their own place in society and to use civil disobedience to make statements, which preceded such notable change agents as Thoreau, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.Her writing centered around equal rights for all and governments based on the decisions of all people, including women and slaves/black people.Olympe de Gouges was an 18th century French philosopher, author and feminist who wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen was a vehement supporter of women's rights. See John Green's Crash Course on the French Revolution ![]()
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