Emancipation Quote by Gerda Lerner Download Open image “Women's history is the primary tool for women's emancipation.” — Gerda Lerner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Emancipation History Inspirational Love Primaries Tools Women'S History
At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
The complete emancipation of women from the ties which held them back in the past, during the ages of despotism and ignorance, is a… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man… Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts,… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share
The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity should reach… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free — Amelia Bloomer Copy Share Image
“Even today, regardless of the quarrels women may pick in the cause of emancipation, the reality is that, in the present world order, it's… — Saratchandra Chattopadhyay Copy Share Image
The notion of women being written out of history is as old as the Bible, but it always seems more galling when it is the history of progressive movements - such as the abolitionist campaign in Britain or the fight for African-American civil rights - in which the role of women has been diminished. — Emily Thornberry Copy Share
The phrase, 'Emancipation of Women' is only an invention of the Jewish intellect and its content is stamped with the same spirit. In the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Autonomy means women defining themselves and the values by which they will live, and beginning to think of institutional arrangements which will order their environment in line with their needs… Autonomy means moving out from a world in which one is born to marginality, to a past without meaning, and a future determined by others--into a world in which one… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share
Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy. — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have nearly run its course—it no longer serves the needs of men or women and in its inextricable linkage to militarism, hierarchy, and racism it threatens the very existence of life on earth. What will come after, what kind… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share
Women's history is women's right-an essential, indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage, and long range vision. — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share
When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
The effect on men has been very bad, too, of the omission of women's history, because men have been given the impression that they're much more important in the world than they actually are. It has fostered illusions of grandeur in every man that are unwarranted. If you can think as a man that everything great in the world and… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share
“perhaps the greatest challenge to thinking women is the challenge to move from the desire for safety and approval to the most "unfeminine" quality… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history [do] not… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential need that people have in order to breed the… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride price and child marriage, and to enforce women to be involved in school. Every time, the reaction from the traditionalists was one of contempt and scorn and at times outright rebellion. I think the emancipation of… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body;… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man… Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts,… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share
And with iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations - none of which I know how to work - information becomes a distraction, a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln would have been happy to have solved the slavery problem by compensation - in fact, drew up a gradual, compensated emancipation plan… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow their domestic… — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT which will bring about mental emancipation. Without the wonderful element of doubt,… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains. And he will see that the man whose mind mirrors the world becomes in a sense as great… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
![“Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history [do] not know what women before them had thought and taught. So generation after generation, they [struggle] for insights others had already had before…” quote by Gerda Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/01f/gerda-lerner-28685_constant_men-develop-ideas-and-systems-of-explana_1757578.jpg)
