Great & Meaningful Quotes

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"This troubled planet is a place of the most violent contrasts. Those that receive the rewards are totally separated from those who shoulder the burdens. It is not a wise leadership."
~~from “The Cloud Minders” episode of Star Trek TV series, 2/28/1969, written by Margaret Armen (said by Spock played by Leonard Nimoy)
 

Women have no rights...except what men allow us. Men are more aggressive and powerful, and they run the world. When the next real crisis upsets them, our so-called rights will vanish...We’ll be back where we always were: property. And whatever has gone wrong will be blamed on our freedom, like the fall of Rome was...
~~from The Women Men Don’t See by James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Sheldon)
 
It’s easy to become complacent and assume battles won for women and enshrined in legislation are battles done with, but there is always likely to be a section of the population who would happily see those rights taken back if there was an opportunity to benefit from that move....[So we must beware of] complacency: women’s lot is improving but precarious. The move towards a more equal society has been long fought, and much depends on economic stability...and as the financial crisis taught us, when austerity bites, it’s women who suffer most...When the economy tanks, it is predictably women who suffer.
~~from Lean Out by Dawn Foster
 
"I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands...If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation."
~~Abigail Adams, letter to her husband John Adams, 1776
 
"Antifeminism is always an expression of hating women: it is way past time to say so, to make the equation, to insist on its truth. ...It is right to [take notice of] woman hating, sex hatred, passionate contempt, in every effort to subvert or stop an improvement in the status of women on any front, whether radical or reform. It is right to [take notice of] contempt for women in any effort to subvert or stop any move on the part of women toward sexual independence, toward civil or legal equality, toward self-determination. Antifeminism is the politics of contempt for women as a class."

~~from Right-Wing Women by Andrea Dworkin
 
[To answer the argument that humans should escape the ecological mess we’ve made of Earth by fleeing into space to preserve human civilization: w]hat is a civilization worth if it can not protect the natural conditions that gave birth to it?

~~from Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene by Clive Hamilton
 
"...to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.”
~~First U.S. President George Washington, in his Farewell Address, published in Philadelphia’s American Daily Advertiser on September 19, 1796.
 

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