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"Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open."
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"Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism."
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"Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy is expected to lead, so it doesn't surprise or offend."
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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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"In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others."
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"I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide."
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"Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying."
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"It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive."
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"If we push hard now, this next wave can be the last wave. In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders."
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"A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered."
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"The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever."
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"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."
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"The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever."
Equality

"Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems."
Ability

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

"We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence."
Unity

"The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union."
Equality

"We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works."
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"The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership."
Leadership

"But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example."
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"The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally."
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