"So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality."

Equality, Dignity, Rights, Human rights

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"So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality."

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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

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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

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

Equality, Truth, Power, Regret, Wisdom

"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."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

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"So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality."

Equality, Dignity, Rights, Human rights

"U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone."

Feelings,

"Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade."

Deep, Fire

"To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater."

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"The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this."

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"We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong."

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"You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else."

Equality, Idea, Commitment, Concern

"Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist."

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"Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another."

Books,

"You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong."

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