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"Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance."
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"The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it."
"Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other."
"There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with."
"Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying."
"If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be."
"You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circle less, but to love those who exist beyond it more. Once make the feelings of confidence and of affection universal, and the distinctions of property and power will vanish; nor are they to be abolished without substituting something equivalent in mischief to them, until all mankind shall acknowledge an entire community of rights."
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"Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community."
"If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development."
"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."
"There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players."
"We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will."
"The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being."
"In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear."
"Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation."
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