100+ Vindication Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Mary Wollstonecraft, Sylvana Tomaselli (1995). “Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints”, p.149, Cambridge University Press

topic: Justice, Charity, World, Charity And Love, Vindication

Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.

- Jalal Talabani

topic: Rights, Justice, Individual, Perpetrators, Vindication

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 4 (1792)

topic: Sex, Women, Thinking, Degrade, Vindication

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.149, Penguin Books India

topic: Speech, Association, Should, Vindication, Confined

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: Mary Wollstonecraft (1793). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects”, p.19

topic: Education, Men, Degrees, Vindication

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

- Anna Julia Cooper

topic: Intelligent, Men, Voice, Intelligent Women, Vindication

When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.52, Booklassic

topic: Wise, Innovation, Prejudice, Vehemence, Prevailing

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

topic: Time, Female, Revolution, Personal Dignity, Unchangeable

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.155, Lulu.com

topic: Women, Independent, Feminism, Misogyny, Vindication

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 3 (1792)

topic: Literature, Rational, Exertion, Vindication

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 3 (1792)

topic: Beauty, Women, Feminist, Infancy Is, Women Right

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 3 (1792)

topic: Power, Literature, Dependence On Others, Fallibility, Vindication

[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd (1999). “A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution”, p.95, Oxford Paperbacks

topic: Beautiful, Sex, Gentle, Vindication

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

topic: Life, Single, Blessing, Contracting, Vindication

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: Mary Wollstonecraft (2012). “Mary, A Fiction and The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria”, p.303, Broadview Press

topic: Heart, Mind, Wish, Kinds Of Love, Susceptibility

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.29, Booklassic

topic: Character, Age, Popular Song, Popular Opinion, Vindication

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' (1792) ch. 3

topic: Kings, Husband, Afterlife, Divine Right, Divine Right Of Kings

... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!

- Mary Wollstonecraft

topic: Female, Wealth, Mankind, Vindication

But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.42, Lulu.com

topic: Way, Weak, Hypothesis, Vindication

To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught to depend entirely on their husbands. Meek wives are, in general, foolish mothers; wanting their children to love them best, and take their part, in secret, against the father, who is held up as a scarecrow.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.188, Booklassic

topic: Mother, Children, Husband, Single Parent, Scarecrow

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

topic: Husband, Father, Women, Husband And Father, Vindication

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: 1792 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, pt.1, ch.2.

topic: Women, Mother And Daughter, Mind, Women's Education, Women's Rights

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.6

topic: Strength, Sex, Men, Vindication

History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human freedom, against political oppression and economic slavery.

- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

source: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1949). “Labor's Own William Z. Foster: A Communist's Fifty Years of Working-class Leadership and Struggle”, New York : New Century Publishers

topic: Peace, Tyrants, Long, Sufferers, Economic Slavery

What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Laughter, Laughing, Doe, Vindication

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.

- Criss Jami

source: Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.90, Criss Jami

topic: Men, Special, Doe, Vindication

The Resurrection is the supreme vindication of Jesus' divine identity and his inspired teaching. It's the proof of his triumph over sin and death. It's the foreshadowing of the resurrection of his followers. It's the basis of Christian hope. It's the miracle of all miracles.

- Lee Strobel

source: Lee Strobel (2010). “Case for Christ: A Journalists Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus (Large Print 16pt)”, p.306, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Christian, Jesus, Teaching, Christian Hope, Foreshadowing

We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.

- Robert Toombs

source: Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.3

topic: Rights, Hands, Long, Forbearance, Vindication

To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers.

- Henrietta Szold

topic: Lying, Views, Heritage, Steadfastness, Vindication

A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.275

topic: Humble, Men, Vain, Presumptuous, Vindication

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: Mary Wollstonecraft (2012). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.177, Courier Corporation

topic: Atheism, Literature, Reason, Vindication

IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.

- Robert Walpole

topic: Gentleman, Liberty, Should, Vindication

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 3 (1792)

topic: Justice, Diversity, Progress, Vindication

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: "The original suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft" by Bee Rowlatt, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2015.

topic: Women, Men, Wish, Women Equality, Equal Rights

In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.20, Lulu.com

topic: Education, Accomplishment, Understanding, Vindication

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

topic: Love, Real, Men, Womens Rights, Vindication

The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the flowers which are planted in too rich a soil, strenght state; usefulness are sacrificed to beauty; and the flaunting leaves, after having pleased a fastidious eye, fade, disregarded on the stalk, long before the season when they ought to have arrived at maturity.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: Mary Wollstonecraft (1997). “The Vindications: The Rights of Men and The Rights of Woman”, p.109, Broadview Press

topic: Flower, Eye, Maturity, Flaunting, Strenght

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 9 (1792)

topic: Women, Government, Share, Deliberation, Vindication

To improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. If marriage be the cement of society, mankind should all be educated after the same model, or the intercourse of the sexes will never deserve the name of fellowship.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: Mary Wollstonecraft, Philip Barnard, Stephen Shapiro (2013). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts”, p.70, Hackett Publishing

topic: Marriage, Sex, School, Cement, Vindication

If I could have found what I needed at thirteen, I would not have lost so much of my life chasing vindication or death. Give some child, some thirteen-year old, the hope of the remade life. Tell the truth. Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you there is magic in it.

- Dorothy Allison

source: Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.145, Open Road Media

topic: Children, Writing, Years, Vindication, Thirteen Year Olds

The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the death of Christ accomplished was so full and so prefect that the resurrection was the reward and vindication of Christ's achievement in death.

- John Piper

topic: Life Changing, Mean, Blood, Vindication

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.

- William E. Gladstone

topic: Liberty, Revolution, Conservative, Vindication

Deep down in the Christian's life, always and all the time, there is to be a "no" to every demand that the flesh may make for recognition, and every demand that the flesh may make for approval, and every demand that the flesh may make for vindication. Always the Christian must bear about in his body the marks of the Lord Jesus.