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Feminist literature1 quote
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. — Germaine Greer · 1970Military speech1 quote
Here we will stand and fight; there will be no further withdrawal. I have ordered that all plans and instructions dealing with further withdrawal are to be burnt, and at once. We will stand and fight here. If we can't stay here alive, then let us stay here dead. — Bernard Montgomery · 1942Philosophical literature1 quote
Killing them, therefore, cannot be equated with killing normal human beings, or any other self-conscious beings...No infant-disabled or not-has as strong a claim to life as beings capable of seeing themselves as distinct entities, existing over time. — Peter Singer · 1979Political speech1 quote
Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: "Do not march on Moscow"...[Rule 2] is: "Do not go fighting with your land armies in China." — Bernard Montgomery · 1962Pop music1 quote
If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman. — Helen Reddy · 1971