"Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom."
― Alexis de Tocqueville
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― Alexis de Tocqueville
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- "Women have a lot to say about how to advance women’s rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond."― Charlotte Bunch