Two Quotes about 100 years apart

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First the old one:

"The home is the home of everybody of the nation. No nation can have a proper home unless the women as well as the men give their best to its building up and to making it what a home ought to be, a place where every single child born into it shall have a fair chance of growing up to be a fit, and happy, and a useful member of the community."

This is by Emmeline Pankhurst from her famous Women Sufferage speech "The Importance of the Vote" in March 1908.

“Every spark of friendship and love will die without a home.” This is by Win Butler (Arcade Fire) from their 2007 release Neon Bible.

I am sure it is obvious, but i am very interested in the home and wondering how we will make it through our current destruction. I don't find it strange that in a hundred years we go from the leading feminist voice to one of her great, great grandchildren ... a Canadian artist who knows the experience (like anyone my age does) of the destruction of the home. Please hear me correct, this is destruction wrecked by all Americans, not the feminist movement. Men are most often the leavers in homes and the destruction takes all forms.

Lord help us to build homes.

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Jarrett said…
Neon Bible is a great album. I think it should be mandatory listening material for Christians. Very powerful and prophetic critiques of religion today.
January 19, 2009 at 10:40 AM
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