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“Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.”

W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Anglo-American poet

“The only way to cope with other people's disconnection (because it is so painful) is to become disconnected yourself. But then you become part of the problem. You make the world more dangerous and less conducive to the wellbeing of all life on earth.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Source: tealswan.com/quotes

“Justice is not fulfilled so long as woman is unequal before the law. We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul. You tried that in the case of the negro.”

Frances Harper (1825–1911) American writer

"We Are All Bound Up Together" Speech (1866)

“I felt the fight in me; but I don't want to have to fight all the time.”

Frances Harper (1825–1911) American writer

"We Are All Bound Up Together" Speech (1866)

“Whether Women are better than men, I can say they are certainly no worse.”

Golda Meir (1898–1978) former prime minister of Israel

Golda Meir Quotes. (n.d.). BrainyQuote.com. Retrieved July 7, 2022.

“If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of a man who desrves them.”

Robert Graves (1895–1985) English poet and novelist

Robert Graves Quotes. (n.d.). BrainyQuote.com. Retrieved July 7, 2022.
General sources

“The decline of the churches was a sweeping social revolution, because they had done more than any other institution, public or private, to civilise Australians.”

Geoffrey Blainey (1930) Australian historian

A Shorter History of Australia (1994)

“Women really do rule the world, they just haven't figure it yet. When they do, and they will, we're all in big trouble.”

Leon MacLaren (1910–1994) British philosopher

Dr Leone, quoted in: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657.

“We’ll let the peasants fight for last place.”

Dave Leduc (1991) Canadian Lethwei fighter (born 1991)

After arriving in first place in the third episode of The Amazing Race Canada, Season 7 https://www.tv-eh.com/2019/07/16/the-amazing-race-canada-one-way-fun-day-in-edmonton/ (July 16, 2019)

“I was the one who pulled the trigger of this war.”

Igor Girkin (1970) Russian citizen from Moscow who played a significant role in the War in Donbass

About warfare against Ukraine in Donbas from April 2014

“If our unit hadn't crossed the border, everything would have fizzled out.”

Igor Girkin (1970) Russian citizen from Moscow who played a significant role in the War in Donbass

About warfare against Ukraine in Donbas from April 2014

“Ukrainian military men said to me why are you sitting like cowards, go out into the field, don’t hide behind civilians. Well sorry! Go out into the field to be killed? I’m not Don Quixote, after all!”

Igor Girkin (1970) Russian citizen from Moscow who played a significant role in the War in Donbass

"Russian Donbas militant leader Girkin admits to using civilians as human shields & other war crimes" https://khpg.org/en/1559081415, Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, 25 May 2019 <br class="br">About warfare against Ukraine in Donbas from April 2014

“29 days of the special operation have passed. No strategic success has been achieved in any direction.”

Igor Girkin (1970) Russian citizen from Moscow who played a significant role in the War in Donbass

About the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

“The enemy is quite successful in mobilizing and launching a counter-offensive.”

Igor Girkin (1970) Russian citizen from Moscow who played a significant role in the War in Donbass

About the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

“Thus, it will be necessary to try and defeat the enemy in field battles. And, excuse me, with whom, and with what?! If so far not even the partial mobilisation has been carried out?! No one is giving clear answers to these questions. Simply because there aren't any.”

Igor Girkin (1970) Russian citizen from Moscow who played a significant role in the War in Donbass

"'It's meaningless to hope for victory': Top Russian ex-spy turned influencer warns Putin's offensive in Eastern Ukraine is going 'very bad', troops will suffer 'huge losses' while their leadership leaves 'much to be desired'" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10836379/Ukraine-war-Ex-Russian-commander-says-meaningless-hope-victory-Donbas.html, Daily Mail, 20 May 2022 <br class="br">About the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

“I didn’t invite anyone to pose for a photo together with me.”

Sergey Lavrov (1950) Russian politician and Foreign Minister

Said after several G20 representatives refused to join a group photo session together with Lavrov, quoted in "Vladimir Putin lackey Sergey Lavrov storms out of G20 after photo snub" https://nypost.com/2022/07/08/russian-minister-sergey-lavrov-leaves-g20-after-photo-snub/, New York Post, 8 July 2022 <br class="br">About the Russian invasion of Ukraine 2022

“Media freedom plays an indispensable role in informing the public, holding governments accountable, and telling stories that otherwise would not be told. The U.S. will continue to stand up for the brave and necessary work of journalists around the world.”

Antony Blinken (1962) American government official and 71th U.S. Secretary of State

Quoted in British Court Trusts US to Protect Assange Even Though CIA Plotted to Kill Him https://truthout.org/articles/british-court-trusts-us-to-protect-assange-even-though-cia-plotted-to-kill-him/, Marjorie Cohn, Truthout (15 December 2021)

“For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.”

Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910) England-born American physician, abolitionist, women's rights activist

Quoted in: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657.
Medicine and Morality (1881)

“Women are wiser than men, because they know less and understand more.”

James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright

Quoted in: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657. <br class="br"> https://allauthor.com/quotes/42366/ <br class="br">From other writings

“Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs, which treat us only as the vessels of your sex.”

Abigail Adams (1744–1818) 2nd First Lady of the United States (1797–1801)

Cited in: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657.