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"We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't."
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"At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn't matter. You said, 'That's an American' because there's a readiness to smile and to talk to people."
"Some people think everyone should be the same as them:Look, dress, sound and act just like them."
"Gay people were seen as magical, too. I mean, like in many cultures, men were viewed as warriors and women were viewed as caregivers. But gay people, being both male and female, were seen as both warriors and caregivers. Gay people could do anything. They were like Swiss Army knives!"
"Embrace your diverse, prismatic colors! They make you uniquely you!"
"Individuals who speak languages other than English, who speak patois as well as standard English, find it a necessary aspect of self-affirmation not to feel compelled to chose one voice over another, not to claim one as more authentic but rather to construct social realities that celebrate, acknowledge and affirm differences, variety."
"When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat."
"I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike."
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"It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party."
"We should be the natural home for younger voters. But today we're not. Because too often we sound like people who just don't like contemporary Britain."
"Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed."
"I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change."
"Our members are very much maligned. Obviously the average age is 60 something, but they all have children and grandchildren, they understand what we need to do, they want to win."
"So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes."
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