Vladimir Lenin Quotes
The Proletariat cannot achieve complete liberty until it has won complete liberty for women.
Vladimir Lenin. Because Lenin was such an ardent feminist it was very easy for the opponents of women’s suffrage and equality to label anyone who took that position as a Communist. The conflation of opposition to sexism and racism and communism has been a tactic that was very effective over the years and is still used today by people who think corrective action to reach equality has gone too far.
Nikolai Lenin, 1870-1924, Russian Communist Premier, Quoted in Donald Sassoon, One Hundred Years of Socialism, 1996
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Stowe persuaded Lockwood to stand for President. They tried to recruit a man for the Vice Presidential nomination, and when they could not, Stowe became the first female to become a Vice Presidential candidate.
This quotation illustrates the statement of a reform principle to appease international interests in basic human rights. This type of statement provides the “fig leaf” for the UN and other organizations to pretend that international standards of human rights are being maintained. Nasser did not implement this principle. By the beginning of the 21st century, Egypt was finally making some progress on women’s equality issues. The prohibition on female members of Parliament—{586723}—had been reversed but women were still not allowed to be judges in a criminal trial, laws against infant female circumcision, and other elements of female equality were still not in existence.
Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
This remarkable statement was written in about 1840 and there was probably then few people of either gender who would think such a thing possible.
Some men in the audience hissed as she took the podium.
First female presidential candidate & first divorcee to run for that office
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party socialist state governed by the Soviet Communist Party. A Marxist, he developed a variant of this communist ideology known as Leninism.
