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.
Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.
"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.
Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.
When Alex left for Alaska," Franz remembers, "I prayed. I asked God to keep his finger on the shoulder of that one; I told him that boy was special. But he let Alex die. So on December 26, when I learned what happened, I renounced the Lord. I withdrew my church membership and became an atheist. I decided I couldn't believe in a God who would let something that terrible happen to a boy like Alex.
The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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