Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
de Beauvoir, Simone. The Blood of Others. Translated by Roger Senhouse and Yvonne Moyse, Alfred A. Knopf, 1948.
One of the great ironies is that she had absolute power over everyone in the Russian empire and serfdom was entrenched in Russia. However, she was far more enlightened than the Russian rulers who preceded her.
The Cherokee were settled Indians with farms and ranches. These lands were coveted by many whites and many including President Andrew Jackson was trying to get the Cherokee to trade their land for land in the Oklahoma Territory, despite the white promises of the past Ross took the case to the Supreme Court which ruled that the Cherokee land was theirs and it must be protected for them by the government. But President Andrew Jackson, disobeying the Supreme Court Opinion, forced the Cherokee at gun and bayonet point onto the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma, totally reneging on this quotation and deeds and promises of the past.
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.
