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“The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created differential rights based on race, gender and, any day now, sexual orientation. The great liberal revolution, centuries in the making, that brought forth equality in law has been overthrown. In its place we see rising a new feudal legal order of status-based rights.”

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Paul Craig Roberts

Paul Craig Roberts is an American economist born on April 3, 1939. He has extensive research and teaching experience in the field of economics and has served as the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and an advisor to the Federal Reserve. Roberts is known for his support of free-market economics and his criticism of globalization. more

“The Great Truth is that women in our society constitute one of the most privileged and powerful classes of human beings on earth. The challenge is to make women believe in their power. "Woman as victim" is an idea whose time has passed. The idea of woman as a survivor and a success must take its place.”

Believe Humans Ideas Earth Challenges Human Beings Powerful Class Truth Is Victim Our Society Survivor Privileged

Author:Wendy McElroy

“The headline here is not that a woman exposed a breast. It is, rather, that a breast exposed a woman.”

Breasts Exposed Headlines

Book:Forward from this Moment: Selected Columns, 1994-2008

Source: Forward from this Moment: Selected Columns, 1994-2008

“The imaginative young vagabond quickly loses the social instincts that help to make life bearable for other men. Always he hears voices calling in the night from far-away places where blue waters lap strange shores. He hears birds singing and crickets chirping a luring roundelay. He sees the moon, yellow ghost of a dead planet, haunting the earth.”