"The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality."

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American Activist

Equality, History, Past, Struggle

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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."

Abdulazeez Henry Musa, Nigerian Author

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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."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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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."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

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

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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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

Equality, Truth, Power, Regret, Inspirational

"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

Equality, Gender, Respect, Recognition

"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!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion."

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"The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation."

Woman

"Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving."

Friendship

"We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman."

History

"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls."

Life

"Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth."

Books

"The best protection any woman can have... is courage."

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"Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development."

Development

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal."

Man

"I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse."

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