The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.
Interpretation
The liberation of women benefits everyone, including men, as true freedom cannot exist in a system of oppression.
This quote emphasizes the interconnectedness of freedom between genders. It suggests that the liberation of women not only empowers them but also leads to a greater sense of freedom for men, indicating that oppression of any group ultimately limits the freedom of all. When one group is oppressed, all individuals within that society are affected, as the social fabric is weakened by such injustice.
In practice
In a speech advocating for gender equality.
But when I fell in love with black, it contained all color. It wasn’t a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Because black encompasses all colors. Black is the most aristocratic color of all.... You can be quiet and it contains the whole thing.
In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew the line… From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus.
I don’t demand that all work be a masterpiece. What I am doing is the right thing for me - that is what I am and this is living. It reflects me and I reflect it.
I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.
Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.
I think it's in human nature to want to have more, to compete with the other and, at some level, to be dissatisfied if someone else has more than you.
I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.
Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.
It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might have wavered in their allegiance under this oppression of a great personality. . . . But this was a kind of modern meanness to which Syme could not sink even in his extreme morbidity. Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not coward enough to admire it.
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