The cause of freedom is identified with the destinies of humanity, and in whatever part of the world it gains ground by and by, it will be a common gain to all those who desire it.
Interpretation
Freedom is a universal pursuit that benefits all of humanity regardless of geography.
This quote emphasizes that the pursuit of freedom is intrinsically linked to the fate of all human beings. When freedom is achieved in any part of the world, it reverberates positively for every person who yearns for liberty, creating a collective advancement for humanity as a whole.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech advocating for human rights.
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for a woman to lay the least stress on any grievance; to plead even with justice any cause; in any way to speak consciously as a woman. And fatal is no figure of speech; for anything written with that conscious bias is doomed to death. It ceases to be fertilized.
Being able to live without having to be defined by your skin color is the hallmark of privilege.
The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality fo result. Its equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.
A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.
To say that truth is not out there is simply to say that where there are no sentences there is no truth, that sentences are elements of human languages, and that languages are human creations.~ The suggestion that truth~ is out there is a legacy of an age in which the world was seen as the creation of a being who had a language his own.
The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.
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