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Women Quotes by Nelson Mandela
- Our freedom is also incomplete, dear compatriots, as long as we are denied our security by criminals who prey on our communities, who rob our…
- Freedom cannot be achieved unless women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression... Our endeavors must be about the liberation of the woman, the…
- As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.
- As long as outmoded ways of thinking prevent women from making a meaningful contribution to society, progress will be slow. As long as the nation…
- There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.
- We need a fundamental change of mindset with regards to the way we speak and behave about sex and sexuality. Boys and men have a…
- I have always admired men and women who used their talents to serve the community, and who were highly respected and admired for their efforts…
- The suffering inflicted, and more often than not on the most vulnerable sectors of society, demeans all of us as humanity. That it is invariably…
- If you want to change the world, help the women.
- For every woman and girl violently attacked, we reduce our humanity. For every woman forced into unprotected sex because men demand this, we destroy dignity…
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- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
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- When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched… — Chinua Achebe
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