Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs.
_Emmeline Pankhurst
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a door mat or a prostitute.”
~Rebecca West, “Mr Chesterton in Hysterics: A Study in Prejudice,” The Clarion, 1913 November 14th, reprinted in The Young Rebecca, 1982
“Here’s what we’re not taught [about the Declaration and Constitution]: Those words at the time they were written were blazingly, electrifyingly subversive. If you understand them truly now, they still are. You are not taught – and it is a disgrace that you aren’t – that these men and women were radicals for liberty; that they had a vision of equality that was a slap in the face of what the rest of their world understood to be the unchanging, God-given order of nations; and that they were willing to die to make that desperate vision into a reality for people like us, whom they would never live to see. ”
― Naomi Wolf, The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
Freedom Quote of the Day #36-Jan 18, 2017
“Leadership and Learning are indispensable to each other.”
John F. Kennedy
My fellow American, ask not what your COUNTRY
can do for you, ask what you can do for your
COUNTRY
John F Kennedy
A freedom that only asks what’s in it for me,
A freedom without commitment ot other,
A freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism,
Is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
Barack Obama
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“The cost of freedom is always high, but American have always paid it. Ane one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.”
-John F. Kennedy
“…Defeat appears to me preferable to total Inaction.”
― John Adams
“Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.”
― Thomas Paine
The Platinum Dragon 