Archive for the category “Gender”

Women In Politics

“I especially want to thank my mother, who was born before women could vote, and who is watching her daughter on this stage tonight.”

- Hillary Clinton (via Feministe)

Women’s Rights

“Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.”

- Susan B. Anthony

Difference Is An Inadequate Justification For A Denial of Justice

“American culture has basically accepted the concept of human rights. [...]

“[...]this concept has included implicit exclusions. [...]

“The exclusion has always been justified by putative differences in kind. The question in such border disputes is always when is a difference a distinction.”

- Joel