- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Against Quotes
On taking a stand, for better or worse.
Some quotes here take a stand on real-world policy debates, referenced only generically rather than argued in either direction. One recurring thread pushes back on the idea that the odds are stacked against women; read more at Me.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nationalism can be a destructive force when it promotes intolerance and division. But it can also be a force for good, when it seeks to defend local autonomy against the homogenizing forces of larger entities.
- Innocence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I reckoned my accent and class would count against me; I didn't see actresses as being working-class.
- Competing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love competing against the best.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.
- Necessary
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?
- Immigrant
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- Nov 07, 2020
If one has problems with immigrant communities in Europe, that should not be used against Turkey.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2007, when I was a lawyer for the public interest group Free Press, I helped draft the complaint to the FCC against Comcast for secretly blocking BitTorrent and other technologies.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020