#liberal

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#been #colored #denied #education #feel

There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal. ↗

— Lee Hazlewood

#black #church #guess #i #liberal

Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#democracy #element #finally #liberal #liberal democracy

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#communist #conservative #controlled #criteria #democrat

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#age #anything #back #being #bombed

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#argument #become #discussion #into #liberal

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#discrimination #emancipation #fears #his #inadequacies

Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#anything #appear #aura #far #god-given

The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#elections #four #get #keep #labour

I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word! ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#fair #i #know #liberal #only