"There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant."

Equality, Citizenship, Class

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"There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant."

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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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"I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy."

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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."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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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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"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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"I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and crowned alike, and seated on the self-same throne."

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"In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people."

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"I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie."

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"And understand: class differences will not save you."

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"They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class."

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"The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty."

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"You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs."

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