Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
Alice PaulRead
Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.
Interpretation
The quote asserts that abortion represents a profound form of exploitation of women's rights and autonomy.
Alice Paul's quote highlights the view that abortion, as a societal and legal issue, can be seen as a means of exploiting women's bodies and choices, reducing their autonomy and rights. It suggests that the ability to control one's reproductive health is fundamental to women's liberation, and when that control is compromised, it reflects deeper societal inequalities and exploitation.
In practice
This quote can be used in discussions surrounding women's rights in a political debate.
Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
Unless women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ignored politically.
Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.
When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.
There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.
This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.
We stand on the threshold of a twilight-whether morning or evening we do not know. One is followed by the night, the other heralds the dawn.
And I don't think we should be continuing to propagate the idea that famous people are magical or special because it makes people feel like their lives ain't no good.
We don't have to expect everything from those who govern us; that would be juvenile.
I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on divinity; and as I did not then in the least doubt the strict and literal truth of every word in the Bible, I soon persuaded myself that our Creed must be fully accepted.
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.
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