ibyx: Quote of the Day

QOTD

Fri, 01 Aug 2003 15:28:46 GMT

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

Jane Addams (1869-1935) US social worker, suffragist. She founded Hull House, a pioneer N. American social settlement; first U.S. woman to receive Nobel Peace Prize, 1931.

QOTD

Tue, 22 Jul 2003 03:38:17 GMT

Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety on the streets, for child care, for rape crisis clinics, women's refuges, reforms in the laws. If someone says, "Oh, I'm not a feminist!", I ask, "Why? What's your problem?"

by Dale Spender, For The Record: The Making and Meaning of Feminist Knowledge

Inspired today by Bean at Alas.

QOTD

Sat, 19 Jul 2003 17:21:03 GMT

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.
Robert L. Heilbroner

QOTD

Fri, 18 Jul 2003 20:38:59 GMT

Seen at Howard Dean's Blog for America:

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Abraham Lincoln

QOTD

Thu, 17 Jul 2003 08:13:52 GMT

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

Woodrow Wilson