Liberalism/history

Famous quotes containing the words liberalism and/or history:

“The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)

“The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)