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"Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport."
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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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"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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"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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"No other being is lesser human than the one who thinks of others as such."
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"Celebrate people irrespective of their status or position."
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"We huddle tightly together as cowards, protecting the ranks of our false collective identity from "less-human" intruders, when the only obvious and sane truth is that we are all the same human beings."
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"In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone... Men exchange their work by free, mutual consent to mutual advantage when their personal interests agree and they both desire the exchange. If they do not desire it, they are not forced to deal with each other. They seek further. This is the only possible form of relationship between equals. Anything else is a relation of slave to master, or victim to executioner."
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"Gender equality is not a belief, it is not an idea - it is a key element of the society that will define whether we the humans shall march ahead towards glory and advancement, or sink into the abyss of an existential doom."
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"Equality is to be found only in the spiritual dignity of man."
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"The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age."
Age
"If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence."
Family
"The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well."
Life
"The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete."
Life
"Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history."
History
"The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea."
Life
"All sports for all people."
Sports
"The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion."
Sports
"The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die."
Happiness
"Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for."
Absence
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