In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.
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The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase, to move beyond thinking and talking about the foundations stones - to laying those foundation stones, inch by inch, together.Mary Robinson
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