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• The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Names, White, Numbers

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.402, Cato Institute

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• There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

  Hazel Scott

  Freedom, Glowing, White

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• In our patriarchal world, we are all taught - whether we like to think we are or not - that God, being male, values maleness much more than he values femaleness... that in order to propitiate God, women must propitiate men.

  Sonia Johnson

  Men, Thinking, Order

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• Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Men, Choices, Matter

  Edwin Louis Cole (1998). “Absolute Answers to Prodigal Problems”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• Each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other - male in female, female in male, white in black, and black in white. We are part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.

  James A. Baldwin

  White, Forever, Black

  "The Price of the Ticket". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1985.

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• The triangle pointing downward is a female symbol corresponding to the yoni and the upward pointing triangle is the male, the lingam ... When the two triangles are interlaced, it represents the union of the active and passive forces in nature; it represents the male and female elements.

  Albert Mackey

  Two, Female, Elements

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• Male comics are always coming up to me and they're like 'Hey Natasha. Don't you think you're a little attractive to be a comedian?' and I'm like 'Don't you think you're a little ugly to be talking to me?'

  Natasha Leggero

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• This is the amazing thing about you. Had I not known anything about your story, I would have absolutely not a clue that you had ever been a boy - a male. Which makes me absolutely believe you always should have been a woman.

  Piers Morgan

  Believe, Pride, Gay

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• And rock being a male-dominated, testosterone-driven place that I've been in the eye of the hurricane now for several years, I realized that it can be a place that can perpetuate homophobic behavior unless it's addressed by bands like us.

  Tim McIlrath

  Eye, Years, Rocks

  "Rise Against's 'Make It Stop' Tackles Bullying, Suicide" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2011.

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• I've read that male dolphins try to have sex with humans, and female apes solicit sex from humans. What is wrong with giving them what they want, if that's what turns you on, or even just to gratify them?

  Richard Stallman

  Sex, Giving, Trying

  "Extreme Pornography Law in the UK". Personal Website, stallman.org. February 19, 2010.

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• For starters, Portland isn't a great city to live in if you're a young, African American male with a lot of money.

  Greg Oden

  Cities, African American, Portland

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• And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Mean, Responsibility

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• Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Sex, Children

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• May 12-13: Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp. August 7: Began to separate the Male from the Female at Do - rather too late.

  George Washington

  August, Female, Too Late

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• Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful competition for the whitest, brightest wash, Madison Avenue's girl-next door is all the American male could wish for: unless, by some miscarriage, he should fancy human companionship.

  Vivian Gornick

  Love, Girl, Miscarriage

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• In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that allows Bunny to tell Pooky that they belong to the same tribe, while among the good old boys it serves the cause of masculine dominance by identifying Bear and Wrecker as Alpha males.

  Florence King

  Boys, Names, Bunnies

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• I have not once felt a thing for the male sex, I was only interested in the fairer sex. Mine.

  Novala Takemoto

  Sex, Mines, Felt

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• Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.

  Michael Korda

  Work, Method, Minimum

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• Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

  Hippocrates

  Life, Soul, Female

  Hippocrates, Heraclitus (of Ephesus.), Paul Potter, Edward Theodore Withington (1959). “Hippocrates”

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• Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation.

  Sigmund Freud

  Family, Girl, Fall

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• I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable pleasure, though I sin frightfully against the conventions of the stage. It is a comedy with three female parts, six male, four acts, a landscape (view of the lake), lots of talk on literature, little action and tons of love.

  Anton Chekhov

  Love, Writing, Lakes

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• The third basic need of a male in a relationship is an attractive woman; for a woman, honesty and openness.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Marriage, Honesty

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• Radical feminism, male lesbians, transsexuals, musical condoms with suspenders, and lotsa drummers drumming are all manifestations of a political agenda with roots in the 1960s. This is all fruit we are reaping from the sexual revolution.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Roots, Radical Feminism, Political

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• This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'other' nature of females.

  Dale Spender

  Mean, Female, Invisibility

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• I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.

  Diablo Cody

  Self, Ambitious, Flukes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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