"The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever."

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"The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever."

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"The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it."

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"You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that."

Arthur Ashe, American Athlete

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"I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness."

Lady Gaga, American Musician

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"No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other."

Mary Douglas, British Scientist

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"There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with."

Woodrow Wilson, American President

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"Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying."

Mikhail Bakunin, Russian Revolutionary

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"If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be."

Sheryl Sandberg, American Author

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"You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circle less, but to love those who exist beyond it more. Once make the feelings of confidence and of affection universal, and the distinctions of property and power will vanish; nor are they to be abolished without substituting something equivalent in mischief to them, until all mankind shall acknowledge an entire community of rights."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

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"The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule."

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"Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island."

Nature

"Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice."

Leadership

"Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war."

War

"The catalyst for much of this change is the growing support for republicanism."

Change

"Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future."

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"One man's transparency is another's humiliation."

Man

"We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works."

Agreement

"Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa."

Peace

"At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means."

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"In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic."

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