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People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.
It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.
People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.
[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.
George W. Bush is very vulnerable but not if you campaign the way the major candidates - except for Dean and Kucinich - are campaigning.
For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.
The Adobe flash plug-in is non-free software, and people should not install it, or suggest installing it, or even tell people it exists.
Our intelligence agencies have vast powers, and Obama used them illegally to spy on political opponents. This can't be allowed to stand.
The test for honest Americans or honest liberals is, are they going to defend a president they disagree with when he's being victimized.
It is an old stereotype, that homosexuality has to do only with sex while heterosexuality is multifaceted and embraces love and romance.
To me, God is the accumulated wisdom I've gathered throughout my life. When I pay attention, my body gives me a printout of this wisdom.
The male corporate model is built on a mans greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.
Don't become too narrow. Live fully. Meet all kinds of people. You'll learn something from everyone. Follow what you feel in your heart.
We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.
How lovely it is to live with a sense of community. To live where you can drop in the street and a million people will come and help you.
Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.
I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.
I think the biggest insult, the worst way you can offend a Mexican, is to insult their mother. A mother is the most sacred thing in life.
The woman, in a battle of fists or guns, may not be as great a power as a man; but a woman behind a vote is every bit as useful as a man.
The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother's values and her attitudes toward life.
The law protects you from being abused. It doesn’t threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.
The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.
Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.
In the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.
Our current political system ensures not that the worst will get on top - though they often do - but that the best will never even apply.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.
Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.
Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.
The national coronavirus response has been a radical experiment on the American people that destroyed our economy and harmed our liberty.
The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
It's time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic food.
Being pro-choice was not just a movement to me; it was a lifestyle. I wholeheartedly embraced that lifestyle and loved being a part of it.
On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish knowledge.
The only hope of transforming the world from the 'tsunami of violence' is for each of us to become the change we wish to see in the world.
A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a happening place.
Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.
The changes that take place when liberal Democrats replace not so liberal or compassionate Republicans (or Democrats) are merely cosmetic.
Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.
I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear.
Oh, 1994, April 27. There won't be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.
Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
There was no social media really when 'Inconvenient Truth' came out. I wish we had Twitter and the power of that to help get the word out.
If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.
Rights are not easy to obtain, and once we understand this, we must work attentively and persistently - and never become careless or lazy.
On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.
Taiwan gives a lot of foreign aid to Costa Rica, so it looks like they are basically buying the right to fish, even though it's not legal.
I have known Farley Mowat all of my life, from reading his books as a child to becoming a close friend of his over the last three decades.
Hillary Clinton's ready to pivot to Asia and provoke China. So are the Republicans. It's on domestic issues that there will be a gridlock.