During my administration the most unpleasant and perhaps most dramatic negotiations in which we participated were with the various... leaders of Iran after the seizure of American hostages in November 1979. The Algerians were finally chosen as the only intermediaries who were considered trustworthy both by me and the Ayatollah Khomeini. After many aborted efforts, final success was achieved during my last few hours in the White House.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I believe it is woman's right to have a voice in all the laws and regulations by which she is to be governed; whether in Church... or State; and that the present arrangements of society, on these points, are a violation of human rights, a rank usurpation of power, a violent seizure and confiscation of what is sacredly and inalienably hers--and thus inflicting upon woman outrageous wrongs, working mischief incalculable in the social circle, and in its influence on the world producing only evil, and that continually.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In fact, the mental hygiene code, modeled originally upon the criminal code, binds the afflicted party under every method of legal... restraint. The afflicted is in a sense one accused, hospitalization constituting a type of arrest, accompanied by police power and physical force both in seizure itself and in detention, where escape is prevented by locks and bars and prohibited by statute as well. Having committed no crime, one can--while drugged and unable even to comprehend the proceedings, without even counsel of one's own choosing--within a routine five-minute hearing lose one's liberty for an indeterminate period, even for life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »