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Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we’re half the human race.

Bella Abzug

They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.
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Individuality Promise Suffering
Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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Impeached Revenge Vehicle
Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
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Abortion Political Rights
Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.
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Lasts Next Women
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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Equality Heartless Strong Women
the women’s movement, not only here in the U.S., but worldwide, is bigger and stronger than ever before and in places where it has never been. It has arms. It has legs. And most importantly, it has heads.
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Legs Movement Stronger
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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Changing Nature Power Women
In the face of so much pain, I remain an incurable optimist. I am fueled by the passion of the women I have been privileged to meet and work with, buoyed by their hope for peace, justice, and democracy.
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Justice Pain Passion
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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Jobs Memorable Women
When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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Hats Lawyer Way
I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.
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Coffee Identity Meeting Someone
I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business.
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Business Country Real
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.
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Gay Law Men
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Littles Made Men
Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure … no wonder it’s been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.
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Class Country White

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