
Role of a Woman http://english.bayynat.org.lb/WomenFamily/woman1.htm
The Death of William Posters (London: W. H. Allen, 1965), p. 87.
Role of a Woman http://english.bayynat.org.lb/WomenFamily/woman1.htm
“Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.”
April 14, 1778
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
"Reflecting on ageing when she was approaching fifty" as quoted in: A Century of Women : The History of Women in Britain and the United States (1997) by Sheila Rowbotham, Viking, p. 475
Variant: Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
Source: Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
Source: Malcolm X Speaks (1965), p. 111
“We want to empower women and encourage women and to develop civil societies so women can benefit.”
2010s, 2011, Speech at the Gerald R. Ford Foundation (2011)
A Man Without a Country (2005)
Context: Socialism is no more an evil word than Christianity. Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are created equal and shall not starve.
Speech at Islamia College for women (25 March 1940)
Context: I have always maintained that no nation can ever be worthy of its existence that cannot take its women along with the men. No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
Writing for the court, United States v. Virginia, 518 U.S. 515 (1996)