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I have never separated women's liberation from the liberation of my country.
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The speaker sees women’s liberation and the liberation of their country as one connected struggle. Freedom for the country is not treated as complete if women remain unfree, and women’s freedom is tied to the wider freedom of the nation. The two goals cannot be separated.
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