1. "Man is born free, and everywhere is in chains",
2. "Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of me"
what do these quotes mean to you...explain....
2007-01-20 09:36:51 · 3 answers · asked by 【ツ】♥americandesi16♥【ツ】 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Without looking anything up, the first quote sounds like it could've come from someone like U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in a reference to slavery.
More broadly, the quoter seems to be saying while (many) people appear to be born free, they are bound by various attachments -- to country, family, material things like money, property...so people are in fact "enslaved" to their desires.
I think there's a letter missing in your second quote. I suspect it should read: "Let women share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of men." This was probably made by someone championing the women's suffrage movement for the right to vote (which women only gained in the early 1920s in the United States!). The argument here is that if women had the same rights as their male counterparts, they would also exhibit the same "higher" qualities. Personally, I think women were (and still are) morally and emotionally equal (if not superior) to many men.
2007-01-20 14:02:11 · answer #1 · answered by pat z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like an interested question
2016-07-28 07:47:37 · answer #2 · answered by Lyla 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why are all the answers so dull and short these days?
2016-08-23 15:42:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋