Linguistic freedom is the precondition for the realization of other, fundamental rights.
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas,
How the Kurds are deprived
of Linguistic Human Rights (1992)1
It is not unimportant that a person uses 'chick' nor unimportant that he stops using it. Every act reproduces or subverts a social institution (in the above case, relations between men and women).
Trevor Pateman, Language, Truth and Politics (1975)2