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“To church in the morning, and there saw a wedding in the church, which I have not seen many a day; and the young people so merry one with another, and strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and woman gazing and smiling at them.”

People Men Young Church Poor Morning Saws Conditions Strange Fool Married Men And Women Delight Every Man Merry Gazing

Author:Samuel Pepys

“In short, Anarchism means a condition or society where all men and women are free, and where all enjoy equally the benefits of an ordered and sensible life.”

Men Mean Enjoy Conditions Benefits Men And Women Anarchy Sensible Anarchism

Book:Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism

Source: Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism

“I am not myself free or human until or unless I recognize the freedom and humanity of all my fellowmen... I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.”

Men Humans Humanity Liberty Conditions He Man Men And Women Fellows Limitation Denial Acknowledge Confirmation

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“Men and women thought and did noble and mean things that would have been impossible to them before or after. A man cannot drink old Bourbon long and remain in his normal condition. We did not drink Bourbon, but blood.”

Men Mean Long Has Beens Impossible Blood Conditions Drink Normal Men And Women Noble Bourbon

Book:Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography

Source: Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography

“I know of nothing more significant than the awakening of men and women throughout our country to the desire to improve their houses. Call it what you will - awakening, development, American Renaissance - it is a most startling and promising condition of affairs.”

Knows Men Country Desire House Conditions Development Men And Women Affair Awakening Significant Our Country Renaissance

Book:The House in Good Taste

Source: The House in Good Taste

“the term 'androgyny' ... defines a condition under which the characteristics of the sexes, and the human impulses expressed by men and women, are not rigidly assigned. Androgyny seeks to liberate the individual from the confines of the appropriate.”

Men Humans Individual Sex Term Conditions Men And Women Gender Impulse Characteristics Appropriate Androgyny

Book:Toward a recognition of androgyny

Source: Toward a recognition of androgyny

“I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of the miserable, the desolate, the outcast. I come as the advocate of helpless, forgotten, insane men and women; of beings sunk to a condition from which the unconcerned world would start with real horror.”

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Author:Dorothea Dix

“The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own conditions or those of the world at large.”

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Book:Proposed Roads to Freedom

Source: Proposed Roads to Freedom

“Actually, if you go back to what Marx said in The Communist Manifesto over a hundred years ago, when in talking about the constant revolutions in technology, he ended that paragraph by saying, "All that is sacred is profaned, all that is solid melts into air, and men and women are forced to face with sober senses our conditions of life and our relations with our kind." We're at that sort of turning point in human history.”