Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.
Fyodor DostoevskyRead
Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.
Interpretation
Women must unite to ensure their rights are protected and secure.
Faye Wattleton's quote emphasizes the importance of women collectively recognizing that their rights are fundamental and non-negotiable. It suggests that only through solidarity and determination can women secure a future where their choices and freedoms are protected.
In practice
During a women's rights rally to inspire unity and resolve among attendees.
Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.
Were it part of our everyday education and comment that the corporation is an instrument for the exercise of power, that it belongs to the process by which we are governed, there would then be debate on how that power is used and how it might be made subordinate to the public will and need. This debate is avoided by propagating the myth that the power does not exist.
One can disintegrate the world by means of very strong light. For weak eyes the world becomes solid, for still weaker eyes it seems to develop fists, for eyes weaker still it becomes shamefaced and smashes anyone who dares to gaze upon it.
There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em.
To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.
...religion is a tool to bind people together, to strengthen their unity, but like every tool, it can be mismanaged, even used in opposition to the way it should.
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