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And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

Look at liberty's greatest historic advances: ending slavery. Giving women the vote. Outlawing legal segregation. Each and every time, the people at the forefront of advancing those reforms - often putting their lives on the line - called themselves liberals.

So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us.

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

Solidarity was the best thing which happened in the 20th century.

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.