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Did B. R. Ambedkar say it is shameful for women to enter politics?

“I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved” Babasaheb Ambedkar: Champion of Women´s Rights and Indian Women’s Rights Mattered to Ambedkar. Here’s What ...
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Did Vinayak Damodar Savarkar say, “Nazism proved undeniably the saviour of Germany”?

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar Savarkar did indeed say "Nazism proved undeniably the saviour of Germany" in a speech he delivered to the Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha, in 1940, while criticising ...
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Did Netanyahu say (apparently in 2001) "I actually stopped the Oslo Accords"?

I found what you've quoted here, here and here: The “trick” that stopped further withdrawals, Mr Netanyahu adds, was to redefine what parts of the occupied territories counted as a “specified ...
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Did Netanyahu say (apparently in 2001) "I actually stopped the Oslo Accords"?

Yes, he did say it. In this video, uploaded in 2011, he is seen talking to a kid in his home and claiming that he stopped the Oslo accords by interpreting the wording in a way favorable to Israel (...
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Is this quote/poem by Mahmoud Darwish? "if they ask you about Gaza.."

Documentarily speaking? No, this quote was never mentioned in his complete works (not at least in my Arab Institute for Research & Publishing edition) or any other document (I've surfed Google ...
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Did Plato say “we can change reality by changing our mind”?

Probably not. The first quotation as such for the sentence I found is in a 1990 book (Being Happy!) by Andrew Matthews. There is practically no Plato-context provided there; it a appears in a quick ...
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Would US president Theodore Roosevelt refer to his political enemies as "vermin"?

Google Books is too limited for me to get the full context, but this is what I have, evidently from a letter he wrote in 1900. From The years of preparation, 1868-1900 - Page 1356: …which will help ...
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Did Netanyahu express support of Hamas in 2019?

Yes and no. He did say it, or at least the evidence show that he said it. However, in proper context it does not have the same meaning as you seem to attribute to it in the question. In short, it ...
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