To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man. - Golda Meir

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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.

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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. -Golda Meir

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If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.

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If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome. - Golda Meir

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The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

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It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition. This might have some weight had not the vast majority of men also been enslaved for centuries to kings and popes, and orders of nobility, who, in the progress of civilization, have reached complete equality.

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Any government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into Tyranny. The danger of such deterioration is more acute in a country in which the government has authority not only over the armed forces but also over every channel of education and information.

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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. - Golda Meir

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