Article 6.
* Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
Recently, a friend sent me a much-forwarded email titled, "I am a person." It was a pictorial account of the struggle for women to get the vote and to be accounted as a person in our own right before the law.
I am grateful to all the women who worked, struggled, demonstrated, suffered imprisonment or beatings and yet stood firm until our rights as persons were recognized. I am grateful that I can vote. I am grateful that I can run for political office, own property, manage my own money, and determine for myself whether I will seek employment, start my own business, or take early retirement.
My hope is that everyone everywhere will be able to exercise these rights.
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