"On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family."

Eleanor Holmes Norton, American Politician

Equality, Family, Women, Values

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"On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family."

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"Let's not judge people by the color of their skin but those who makes us feel we are different from each other.- Abdulazeez Henry Musa."

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"I am not red or blue. I am red, white and blue. Those are the same colors in my body (my heart, blood and veins). I am only human, and the human race is the only race in which I am an active participant - mind, body and soul."

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"Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves."

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"There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male except his superior muscle."

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"No other being is lesser human than the one who thinks of others as such."

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"I have a little moral trouble with the term "mankind, as it possesses an innate gender bias, which I cannot approve of, hence, I prefer the term "humanity over it, and the term "human over "man."

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"Sometimes she would be engaged in a laboratory exercise or a seminar when the instructor would say, "Gentlemen, let's proceed," and sensing Ellie's frown would add, "Sorry, Miss Arroway, but I think of you as one of the boys." The highest compliment they were capable of paying was that in their minds she was not overtly female."

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"Woman cannot be free until man's mind is liberated from the megalomania! His self-exaltation is the mother of the gender inequalities. Till we eliminate his exacerbated narcissism, woman will remain unfree!"

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"We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that."

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"The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free."

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