"They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to each other till death. But England belonged to them. That, besides companionship, was their reward. Her air and sky were theirs, not the timorous millions' who own stuffy little boxes, but never their own souls."

Equality, Freedom, Class, Work, Identity

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"They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to each other till death. But England belonged to them. That, besides companionship, was their reward. Her air and sky were theirs, not the timorous millions' who own stuffy little boxes, but never their own souls."

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"There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion."

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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."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"I don't pretend there aren't biological differences, but I don't believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it's socialization, that we're socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead."

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"We need to eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, religion, and nationality. Every human requires food and water to survive and every human has a heart that bleeds, loves, and grieves."

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"You're my equal. And as much as that means we have each other's backs in public, it also means we that grant each other the gift of honesty - of truth."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

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"Celebrate people irrespective of their status or position."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"We are all endowed with the wealth of time equally. Everybody that is born on the surface of this earth, has this wealth."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"No matter where you are in life at the moment, you still remain as important as everyone else."

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"She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position, it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship."

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"Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain."

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"I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children."

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"Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants - the whole system's wrong, and she must challenge it."

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"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote."

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"It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools."

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"The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot."

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