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If City Hall started projecting swastikas, no one would say 'You know what? Free speech.' People would say that is wrong.
Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.
It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.
I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.
I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.
Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.
Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat.
One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
The fear habit is very detrimental because you attract the things you fear. If we have any fear we need to get rid of it.
I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group
The financial wealth of the top 1 percent of households in the U.S. exceeds the combined wealth of the bottom 95 percent.
I hear people who are worried about climate change tell me, oh, Congress that's gridlock, that's not where the action is.
Fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage. That was one of the reasons why so many people flocked to Bernie Sanders candidacy.
Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.
Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.
Natural Family Planning works and is as effective, and sometimes more effective, than the birth control methods out there.
The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.
I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.
All my life, I've been lucky to work in social justice, starting as a labor organizer working with low-wage working women.
As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.
People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no tomorrow.
Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.
God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.
People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.
I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.
Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on moral grounds.
It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.
We, women of one country, Will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.
In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.
The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.
I don't see the point in making a distinction between natives having more of a right to kill whales than nonnative people.
To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme.
A fish is more valuable swimming in the sea maintaining the integrity of oceanic eco-systems than it is on anyone's plate.
I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege.
It's all these pundits, all these consultants, and the candidates, as if they're in a bubble leaving democracy off-limits.
I spent a long time reporting on trans issues, and I know in the course of that reporting I saw how deeply adversity runs.
For the first time in history, my community has had to use air conditioners. Imagine that, air conditioners in the Arctic.
The Lord only knows how many times I let my children go hungry rather than take secretly the bread I liked not to ask for.
There clearly was an Obama administration no-holds-barred attempt to clear the path to the presidency for Hillary Clinton.
Planned Parenthood's bottom line is number. And, with abortion as its primary money-maker, that means implementing a quota.
When I say, 'I want women to have control over their bodies,' I mean that I want women to know and embrace their fertility.
The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.
When I was saving pills to kill myself, I thought there was no hope. I thought my life was over because I was a homosexual.
When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
I believe in MasterPeace. World leaders cannot push back armed conflict alone. We need the whole world to make this happen.
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.