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We need to have a nation that understands the necessity of empowering women.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It’s very clear.

All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open.