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"Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves."
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"Until there is equal and fair portion of opportunities apportioned for every citizen, the power structure may need to be restructured."
"Being homosexual is no more abnormal than being lefthanded."
"Not all slaves are poor, and not all free men are rich."
"Love has no gender - compassion has no religion - character has no race."
"I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, do we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that."
"There are three things that a beggar and a rich person share every day: the sun, the moon, and the stars."
"It is not my ambition to marry a white woman or swim in a white pool. It is political equality that we want."
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"It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world."
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"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."
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"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
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