Voltairine de Cleyre Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Men, Giving, Liberty

  Eugenia C. DeLamotte, Voltairine De Cleyre (2004). “Gates of Freedom: Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind”, p.249, University of Michigan Press

• Let every woman ask herself: "Why am I the slave of man? Why is my brain said not to be the equal of his brain? Why is my work notpaid equally with his? Why must my body be controlled by my husband? Why may he take my labor in the household, giving me in exchange what he deems fit? Why may he take my children from me? Will them away while yet unborn?" Let every woman ask.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Children, Husband, Men

• As long as the working-people fold hands and pray the gods in Washington to give them work, so long they will not get it.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Hands, Giving, Long

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.152, SUNY Press

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