What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without the need for any help from elite writers or thinkers.
Interpretation
Revolutionary thought stands out for its straightforwardness and integrity in expressing concepts of freedom and justice.
Nawal El Saadawi emphasizes that revolutionary thought is characterized by its clarity and nobility, making complex ideas like freedom and justice accessible through simple language. This suggests that genuine revolutionary ideas do not require the interpretation of intellectuals; instead, they resonate clearly with everyone and invite understanding without elitism.
In practice
During a public speech advocating for social change, one could quote this to emphasize the importance of straightforward communication in activism.
Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another.
To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.
When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.
My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.
Interviewer: What would you say to a woman in this country who assumes she is no longer oppressed, who believes women's liberation has been achieved? el Saadawi: Well I would think she is blind. Like many people who are blind to gender problems, to class problems, to international problems. She's blind to what's happening to her.
The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.
A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.
There is none dwelling in the house but God. When a man is awakened he melts and perishes.
Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.
It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin begins is a matter as to which casuists differ. One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent. But I doubt whether modern authorities would agree with him on this point.
Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.
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