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Clara Zetkin

The guardianship of the weaker sex has survived in the family law which still states, ‘And he shall be your master.’

– Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin

The bourgeois woman not only demands her own bread, but she also requests spiritual nourishment and wants to develop her individuality.

– Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin

In the women’s world, as well as in the men’s world, there exists the class law and the class struggle, and it appears as fully established that sometimes between the socialist working women and those belonging to the middle class, there may be antagonisms.

– Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin

When we demand Woman Suffrage, we can only do so on the ground, not that it should be a right attached to the possession of a certain amount of property, but that it should be inherent in the woman herself.

– Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin

Women’s propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women’s class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle.

– Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin

What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women’s movement.

– Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin

We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women’s rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.

– Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin

The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible.

– Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin

Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts.

– Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin

Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought.

– Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin

Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women’s movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated.

– Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin

When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.

– Clara Zetkin

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