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Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.
When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventually it's coming back to get everyone.
We want to shut down the day laborer site. This day laborer site undermines and violates federal immigration law, and it can't go forward.
The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.
For me, the massiveness of what I don't know is one way I experience God. It creates in me a feeling of humility and a sense of gratitude.
Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I've been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I'm doing now.
We must ask the high cadres ... When you suppressed the rights of others to express freely their political views, did you secure your own?
The testimony of former abortion workers can help persuade lawmakers to create fair laws that protect women from dirty abortion facilities.
I think that by telling the truth and by attempting to be a good citizen, somehow I've ended up playing with fire. And that's really scary.
Dealing with Hollywood and commercial entertainment, you always have to worry that the political message is going to be skewed or obscured.
My grandfather came to Canada from Romania just before the Second World War, already in debt after buying his boat ticket on borrowed dime.
You are enough to start a movement. Individual people can come together around things that they know are unjust. And they can spark change.
There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.
I would prefer every [American] state keep the definition of marriage that's prevailed in Western civilization for a couple thousand years.
Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.
Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.
By the way, what happened to our surgeon general who warned us about AIDS and smoking? That position has been completely stripped of power.
I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.
No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.
We are literally eating the oceans alive and there are simply not enough fish to continue to feed an ever expanding population of humanity.
North American cats eat more fish than all the world's seals put together, yet we lay the blame on the seals for the declining fish stocks.
This country has been strip-mined by rich and powerful interests. If you dont like what they're doing, don't just sit there. Vote them out.
In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.
People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
Though it seems curious, I do not remember ever asking for anything but what I got it. And I always received it as an answer to my prayers.
To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.
Veterans Affairs (VA) is a mess of a government agency and too often abuses the rights and interests of veterans it is supposed to protect.
There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.
All societies that have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work - and therefore as dads.
Men may be way behind in creating choices for themselves, but have actually been quiet supporters of the choices women want for themselves.
If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms.
I don't have to live up to that Superwoman myth. I can cry and be human and lean on people who take care of me. That can be very liberating.
Putting a label [homosexual] on myself was a big step forward...once I said, 'Yes, that's me, that's what I am,' I was able to work with it.
None of what’s happened to me and to my family has shaken what I know to be correct and true about science and medicine, and my experiences.
I don't even want to go to the Pride marches anymore. The politics have been removed almost entirely. They're just huge corporate showcases.
As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.
I’m His girl. You don’t mess with God’s girl. I got a sign on my forehead that says: You better be nice to me, for my Father owns the world.
Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?
Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.
Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure of their election.
More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I'm hit with every day of my life: "Are you a man or a woman?
The first right of every child is to be wanted, to be desired, to be planned for with an intensity of love that gives it its title to being.
I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine.
The grand schemes of liberation, however indistinct and amorphous, can quickly be compromised, consumed by petty disputes and local hatreds.
The world is like a mirror; if you smile at it, it smiles at you. I love to smile, and so in general, I definitely receive smiles in return.
This policy represents a massive injustice against Iraqi civilians, ... and it must be ended - not after Mr. Clinton leaves office, but now.
I tease sometimes and say that the King holiday is a 20th-century miracle. Reagan even signed it, and he was completely opposed to the idea.
I feel that I'm very much in touch with my father's spirit and presence. I feel it, sense it and take much energy and inspiration from that.
Abortion, more than not, leaves women with an aftermath of grief, guilt, and emotional overload. In a lot of cases, this can last a lifetime.
Christ would not vote for Barack Obama because Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved.