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• The American people understand that it is grotesquely unfair - we are a society that prides itself on fairness, that prides itself on equal opportunity, and people are looking out and seeing, since the Great Recession of 2008, 99 percent of all new income going to the top 1 percent.

  Bernie Sanders

  Pride, Opportunity, People

  "Bernie Sanders on America’s ‘grotesquely unfair’ society". Interview with Jim Tankersley, www.washingtonpost.com. July 16, 2015.

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• Extreme skepticism and extreme gullibility are two equal ways of not having to think at all. And I don't think I'm the first to say that.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Two, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Unfortunately, the greater consciousness among Whites about Black equality has not carried over to the new victims of racism - Muslims and Immigrants. There is no racial enlightenment for these groups, which are huge. Millions of Muslims and an equal number of immigrants, who whether legal or illegal, face discrimination both legally from the government and extra-legally from White Americans - and sometimes Black and Hispanic Americans. The Democratic Presidential candidates are avoiding these issues in order to cultivate support among White Americans.

  Howard Zinn

  Government, Order, White

  "Zinn Speaks". Interview with Wajahat Ali, www.counterpunch.org. April 19, 2008.

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• To all trans youth out there, I would like to say respect yourself and be proud of who you are. All human beings deserve equal treatment no matter their gender identity or sexuality. To be perceived as what you say you are is a basic human right.

  Andrej Pejic

  Equal Treatment, Identity, Proud

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• Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Rights, Careers

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.45, Beacon Press

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• Republicans absolutely support equal pay for equal work.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Equal Pay, Support, Republican

  "Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers & Donna Edwards Discuss Mitt Romney". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 14, 2012.

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• I was immediately swept up in Ariane's story. Equal parts thrill-ride and love story, The Rules is intense and emotional. This book stays with you long after you finish.

  Sophie Jordan

  Book, Emotional, Long

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• I`ve spend my whole life hating and loving my brother with equal measure. I never though I would be the one to help drive a stake through his heart.

  Rebecca

  Brother, Hate, Heart

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• There is always a choice, even if the alternatives don't appear to be equal.

  Garth Nix

  Choices, Alternatives, Ifs

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• The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation.

  Charles Rangel

  Dream, Opportunity, Promise

  "The Struggle Continues for Civil Rights" by Rep. Charles Rangel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2013.

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• For life is a fire burning along a piece of string--or is it a fuse to a powder keg which we call God?--and the string is what we don't know, our Ignorance, and the trail of ash, which, if a gust of wind does not come, keeps the structure of the string, is History, man's Knowledge, but it is dead, and when the fire has burned up all the string, then man's Knowledge will be equal to God's Knowledge and there won't be any fire, which is Life. Or if the string leads to a powder keg, then there will be a terrific blast of fire, and even the trail of ash will be blown completely away.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Ignorance, Men, Fire

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.226, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All things being equal, I think people would still prefer to do business with their hometown companies. That's true in America, that's true in China, that's true in Germany.

  Bill Ford

  Thinking, America, People

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• No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in which he has not soared or descended, and none in which he has not said the commanding word.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Class, Mind, Quality

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• How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still. Like an odor of incense, like a strain of music, like a sleep, it is inexact and boundless. It will not be dissected, nor unraveled, nor shown.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Sleep, Incense

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• Here the only genuine conflict is between true believers. Of a given text in Holy Writ one faction may say this thing and another that, but both agree unreservedly that the text itself is impeccable, and neither in the midst of the most violent disputation would venture to accuse the other of doubt. To call a man a doubter in these parts is equal to accusing him of cannibalism. Even the infidel Scopes himself is not charged with any such infamy.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Doubt, Atheism

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• The Figurehead of American Public Education Who Prefers Private Religious Education (!)All things equal, I would prefer to have a child in a school that has a strong appreciation for the values of the Christian community, where a child is taught to have a strong faith.

  Rod Paige

  Christian, Religious, Appreciation

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• When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?

  Herman Melville

  Men, Slavery, Born

  Herman Melville (1963). “Billy Budd, and other prose pieces, edited by R. W. Weaver”

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• Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.

  George Washington

  Art, Pride, Teach

  George Washington (1871). “Words of Washington”, p.8

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• Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.

  Dorothy Parker

  God, Law, Opposites

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• Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent, professor and president. So you must insist that qualifications, not sex, shall govern appointments and salaries.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Sex, Equal Pay, Should Have

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• In an interview, former vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan said he does not have a racist bone in his body. However, he admitted he has three sexist bones and his spine is homophobic.

  Conan O'Brien

  Presidential, Racist, Body

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• I love the HRC. The initials are great.

  William J. Clinton

  Justice, Politics, Comedy

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• Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage...They asked only for freedom of opportunity and equal chance. In these conceptions lies the real basis of American democracy. They and their fathers give a genius to American institutions that distinguished our people from any other in the world.

  Herbert Hoover

  Lying, Father, Real

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the middle class. She not only considers herself the equal of man, but his superior, especially in her purity, goodness, and morality. Small wonder that the American suffragist claims for her vote the most miraculous powers. In her exalted conceit she does not see how truly enslaved she is, not so much by man, as by her own silly notions and traditions. Suffrage can not ameliorate that sad fact; it can only accentuate it, as indeed it does.

  Emma Goldman

  Country, Silly, Men

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.57, PM Press

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• Never, I say, had a country so many openings to happiness as this.... Her cause was good. Her principles just and liberal. Her temper serene and firm.... The remembrance then of what is past, if it operates rightly must inspire her with the most laudable of an ambition, that of adding to the fair fame she began with. The world has seen her great adversity.... Let then, the world see that she can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to the bravest virtue in time of war.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, War, Adversity

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