Dalai Lama Quotes
The world will be saved by the western woman.
Dalai Lama XIV. Address at the Vancouver Peace Summit. 27 Sept. 2009, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Turkey, the only Islamic nation where women have equal rights, made huge developmental and reform strides immediately after Ataturk reformed Turkish society and gave women the vote, freed them from veils and chadors, educated them and gave them equal employment rights. Turkey moved from an impoverished 3rd world nation to a modern industrialized democracy.
She was also Australia’s First Woman Cabinet Minister.
The importance of women in the Hamas, fundamentalist vision is to function as a brood mare to “manufacture” men and then to bring them up which at least requires something more than their bodies. The role of women in producing other women however is never mentioned as important.
This is a question our women must answer; upon their loins depends the future destiny of the nation.
At the beginning of the United States, the Founding Fathers had seen fit not to restrict a woman’s right to birth control and abortion, both of which were prevalent in Colonial America albeit not very reliable or safe. The first efforts to control abortion were in the 1820s and 1830s. Storer was the first anti-abortion activist. His major issue was that abortion diminished America’s fertility rate and with the high fertility of the immigrants, the native Americans would be overwhelmed.
Dalai Lama (UK: /ˈdælaɪ ˈlɑːmə/, US: /ˈdɑːlaɪ ˈlɑːmə/; Tibetan: ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་, Wylie: Tā la'i bla ma [táːlɛː láma]) is a title given by the Tibetan people to the foremost spiritual leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest of the classical schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The 14th and current Dalai Lama is Tenzin Gyatso, who lives as a refugee in India. The Dalai Lama is also considered to be the successor in a line of tulkus who are believed to be incarnations of Avalokiteśvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion.
