When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Women are the real architects of society. -Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Women are the real architects of society. -Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
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Diamonds never leave you... men do!
Diamonds never leave you... men do!
