To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of recognizing women's contributions to society and challenges the notion of their inadequacy.
Lyndon B. Johnson's quote critiques the societal tendency to dismiss women's capabilities and roles within history. He argues that to declare women unfit for significant tasks is to ignore the vast contributions and realities of their experiences and abilities. This statement is a call for acknowledgment and recognition of women's importance in shaping history and society.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech advocating for gender equality.
You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
We do this in order to slow down aggression. We do this to increase the confidence of the brave people of South Vietnam who have bravely born this brutal battle for so many years with so many casualties. And we do this to convince the leaders of North Vietnam-and all who seek to share their conquest-of a simple fact: We will not be defeated. We will not grow tired. We will not withdraw either openly or under the cloak of a meaningless agreement.
So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it is necessarily shortest we form projects which we delay to execute, indulge such expectations as nothing but along train of events can gratify, and suffer those passions to gain upon us which are only excusable in the prime of life.
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
No Man has a more perfect reliance on the all-wise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks his aid more necessary...The man must be bad indeed who can look upon the events of the American Revolution without feeling the warmest gratitude towards the great Author of the Universe whose divine interposition was so frequently manifested in our behalf....In war He directed the sword, and in peace, He has ruled in our councils.
A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.
What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.
Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
Valar Morghulis - All men must die.
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