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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.
- Nov 07, 2020
Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
- Benefiting
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- Nov 07, 2020
If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
- Chill
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civil rights leaders, including my husband and Albert Turner, have fought long and hard to achieve free and unfettered access to the ballot box. Mr. Sessions has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mr. Sessions' conduct as a U.S. Attorney, from his politically-motivated voting fraud prosecutions to his indifference toward criminal violations of civil rights laws, indicated that he lacks the temperament, fairness and judgment to be a federal judge.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Voting Rights Act was, and still is, vitally important to the future of democracy in the United States.
- Continue
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- Nov 07, 2020
Particularly in the South, efforts continue to be made to deny blacks access to the polls, even where blacks constitute the majority of the voters.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole and heals the rotten community, now so shattered by war and poverty and racism. I have great faith in the power of women who will dedicate themselves whole-heartedly to the task of remaking our society.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no reason why a nation as rich as ours should be blighted by poverty, disease, and illiteracy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is plain that we don't care about our poor people except to exploit them as cheap labor and victimize them through excessive rents and consumer prices.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our Congress passes laws which subsidize corporation farms, oil companies, airlines, and houses for suburbia. But when they turn their attention to the poor, they suddenly become concerned about balancing the budget and cut back on the funds for Head Start, Medicare, and mental health appropriations.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thank God we have the example of Martin Luther King, Jr. People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples' lives, and that's why it's so important not just to commemorate his life, but to study and try to live by the principles of that life.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always knew that I was called to do something. I didn't know what, but I finally rationalized after I met Martin - and it took a lot of praying to discover this - that this was probably what God had called me to do: to marry him.
- Prison
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.
- Nov 07, 2020
Nonviolence is the only credible response to the violence we're seeing around the world.
- Anger
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- Nov 07, 2020
Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can prevent many people from becoming terrorists by truly listening to people who feel they've been treated unjustly and responding to their concerns with a sense of justice and compassion.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't see how you can separate human rights and the rights of all people, no matter what their sexual orientation is.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that... discrimination in the job market is a very important area where work needs to be done.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the area of economic justice, we still have a long way to go. We have too many people who are discriminated against just because they happen to be black or they happen to be a woman or some other minority.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot have peaceful means - peaceful means will have to be used to bring about peaceful ends. If you use destructive means, you're going to bring about destructive ends.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020