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No man or woman, who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way, is without enemies.

— Daisy Bates

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The Australian native can withstand all the reverses of nature, fiendish droughts and sweeping floods, horrors of thirst and enforced starvation—but he cannot withstand civilization.

The Passing of the Aborigines (1938)

Your true gentlewoman does not sit down and weep and say "I've never done such things"—she simply "does" and no more about it.

There are a few fortunate races that have been endowed with cheerfulness as their main characteristic, the Australian Aborigine and the Irish being among these.

Surely the world we live in is but the world that lives in us?

Our road is the Road of Yesterday and the Road of Today, for Yesterday and Today are still the same.

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The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

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There is a Lady sweet and kind,
Was never face so pleased my mind;
I did but see her passing by,
And yet I love her till I die.

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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

Mahatma Gandhi

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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