Extracts from Scottish Parliament debate on International Women's Day - Mar 8
Friday, 9 March 2018 07:43
Anas Sarwar (Glasgow) (Lab):...We cannot leave any community to
fight its battles on its own, because for every one of us who
believes in equality in all its forms, it is a shared fight. We
cannot leave women to be the voices fighting for gender equality,
just as we cannot leave LGBT communities to be the ones to fight
for LGBT rights and we cannot ask ethnic minority communities to be
the ones to fight against racism. We cannot leave Jewish
communities to fight anti-Semitism alone or leave...Request free trial
(Glasgow)
(Lab):...We cannot leave any community to fight its
battles on its own, because for every one of us who believes in
equality in all its forms, it is a shared fight. We cannot leave
women to be the voices fighting for gender equality, just as we
cannot leave LGBT communities to be the ones to fight for LGBT
rights and we cannot ask ethnic minority communities to be the ones
to fight against racism. We cannot leave Jewish communities to
fight anti-Semitism alone or leave Muslim communities to fight
Islamophobia alone. Instead, all of us together, shoulder to
shoulder, must take on those shared challenges so that we can
defeat prejudice, hate and inequality in all their forms and root
them out of our society...
(Strathkelvin and Bearsden)
(SNP):...The next question that I was asked
was: if I could bring back either suffragette Emily Davison or Jane
Haining, who saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, who would
it be? It was an impossible question. I told the pupils that I
honestly could not choose, because each had contributed so much,
but it was fabulous that they knew about those wonderful
women...
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