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the patriarchal family, with its division of functions between a providing and protective father and a home-making, submissive mother, however satisfactory it may have been in its time, has outlived its day. Bread-winning is no longer a monopoly of men, and home-making should no longer be the monopoly of women.

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I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between Jesus and Sat…

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It's not worthy o human beings to give up.

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First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

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I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.

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War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the …

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Because war and preparations for war have acquired legitimacy, and because of the tremendous proliferation of arms through production and export, so …

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If they [women] are to be integrated more fully into our society than has been the case so far, changes in individual attitudes of both men and women…

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All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.

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As a group, housewives to-day suffer more from social isolation and loss of purpose than any other social group, except, perhaps, the old.

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