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Maureen Reagan

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

Maureen Reagan

Equality

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The quote means that true equality is achieved not when women are always better or more capable than men, but when they have the same chance to be chosen for leadership roles regardless of their competence. It points out that some men in office are not very capable, so fairness would allow women to hold those positions even if they are equally flawed.

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I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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