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Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.
As I say, I can't wait until Congress - half of Congress can get pregnant so we can quit fighting about birth control and Planned Parenthood.
Those of us who came to be Christians get to remember that forgiveness cost God the death of God's son. It's an expensive thing in many ways.
As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.
It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist.
A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.
I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.
I dream for a world which is free of child labour, a world in which every child goes to school. A world in which every child gets his rights.
Celebrities who lend their names to causes to raise lot of money for important issues should be admired and not marginalized and made fun of.
We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time.
I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.
If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.
Fountain of Love my source is in thee - Loving thy will my spirit is free - Beautiful day when all of us see - The hope of the world is Love!
That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it and block it.
Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime.
I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart.
The press is largely directed at white society or the so-called electorate whose values are laced with racial prejudice against black people.
Until our leaders take seriously their responsibility to pass on a healthy and just world to the next generation, I will continue this fight.
Empathy is at the core of family stability and love. I've never had a couple come to me and say, I want a divorce; my partner understands me.
Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex.
Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.
A person working 45 hours per week averages 44% more income than someone working 40 hours per week. That's 44% more income for 13% more time.
The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to leave forests.
You've got to get people to believe that change is possible... You have to show that you can fight things successfully even if you don't win.
In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity out of all that is revered.
Within the theater lies the power to stimulate and alter the hearts and minds of both the privileged and those who have too long been denied.
The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.
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.
You can live your life being scared of losing someone, and at the end of the day, if he is going to leave you, he'll leave you, and that's it.
The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it.
I think we're all fighting for the day in which partisan politics is no longer something that is used to attack women's access to health care.
What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.
Even today every year we lose an awful lot of young people, teenagers, who take their own lives because they're - they are gay or transgender.
The difference between equity and equality is that equality is everyone get the same thing and equity is everyone get the things they deserve.
A cacophony of whispers is also noise. There are many ways to be heard, and there are many ways to be visible. There are many ways to be seen.
When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.
Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.
The wiping out of millions of homes took away Black and Brown wealth. It drove poverty, it drove unemployment, it drove people to food stamps.
In the great scheme of things, what matters is not how long you live but why you live, what you stand for and what you are willing to die for.
Nobody can legitimately claim to be a marine ecologist and conservationist while continuing to eat fish. It is the ultimate form of hypocrisy.
There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive.
The greatest obstacle is simply this: the belief that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. That is the addict's excuse.
Men give the same lines to different women for the same reason women wear the same perfume for different men; we all try the things that work.
It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation system.
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.
I had a sense that my mother was struggling, when I was a kid, working twelve hour days, making $12,000 a year with two kids in a trailer park.
To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.
When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.