“The complete emancipation of women from the ties which held them back in the past, during the ages of despotism and ignorance, is a basic aim of the Party and the Revolution. Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.” AgePastPartyHalfIgnoranceRevolutionAimEducatedChainsTiesEnlightenedOur SocietySaddamHusseinLiberatedDespotismEmancipationOne Half Book:Social and Foreign Affairs in Iraq (Routledge Revivals) Source: Social and Foreign Affairs in Iraq (Routledge Revivals)
“If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about America the United States as the great country of the future, of freedom and equality and a good life for the working man, and a country of revolution and emancipation, and of Russia as the great country of despotism, backwardness, savagery and superstition.” IfsMenCountryStatesWould BeAmericaUnitedUnited StatesCenturyRevolutionRussiaIronyGood LifeSuperstitionsNineteenth CenturyDespotismEmancipationGreat CountrySavageryWorking ManEngelsFreedom And Equality Author:Christopher Hitchens
“The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century. The female sex was historically sexualized and required to have orgasms for the first time. Sexual "deviants," particularly homosexuals, achieved partial emancipation.” FirstsSexCenturyRevolutionFirst TimeFemaleHomosexual20th CenturyEmancipationDeviantsSexual Revolution Author:Volkmar Sigusch
“But since the end of the 1970s, at the beginning of the revolution in Iran under Khomenei, we have experienced a politicization of Islam. From the beginning, it had a primary adversary: the emancipation of women. With more men now coming to us from this cultural sphere, and some additionally brutalized by civil wars, this is a problem. We cannot simply ignore it.” MenWarEndsProblemRevolutionIslamPrimariesCivil WarIranSpheresAdversariesEmancipation Author:Alice Schwarzer
“The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was really the first place where there was a large scale emancipation experiment.” FirstsBigsRememberRevolutionSlaveScalesExperimentsDramaticRegimesEmancipationLarge ScaleHaitianHaitian Revolution Author:Laurent Dubois
“A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.” RevolutionVictimOppressionChiefsPatriarchyHomosexualEmancipationSexual Revolution Author:Kate Millett