Gloria Allred Quotes
Women will no longer be silent when they suffer injustices against them.
Allred, Gloria, and Rachel Kranz. Fight Back and Win: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Injustice--and How You Can Win Your Own Battles. ReganBooks, 2006.
The speaking to which she was referring was Christian Religious preaching by women. At the time it was considered by most Christians to be sacrilegious for women to preach. This came down from the orthodox Jewish tradition, and there are several passages in the New Testament where the Apostles, who were Jews themselves were echoing the religious tradition. This then took on a meaning that went beyond tradition as in Judaism. Margaret Fox wrote this essay which was a completely theological defense of a woman’s right – indeed obligation—to preach. Theologically, there are many Christian churches for whom her argument would be too radical—even in modern times. However, in the middle of the 17th century to most male clerics, this was so unfathomable that they did not even deign to refute her theological arguments. Meanwhile, the Quakers began to accept women in theological positions of influence—for ahead of most other Christian and Jewish sects. See {619836} and {619837} for quotations from the essay itself.
She was chiding the Egyptian military who in the Arab Spring, turned on demonstrators and soldiers in the middle of the central square stripped a female demonstrator half naked and beat her badly;
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.
Gloria Rachel Allred is an American women's rights attorney known for taking high-profile and often controversial cases, particularly those involving the protection of women's rights. She has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
