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Marian Wright Edelman

"Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society."

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"Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society."

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Amber Hurdle

"So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore a bikini that revealed a bodily imperfection. A team won a sporting event, but another team lost.' I smiled. 'You can't go disappearing on everybody like this, Hazel. You miss too much."

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Amber Hurdle

"Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, institution and sacred belief we hold dear, to produce a foul harvest of exclusion, apathy, brute domination and death."

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"In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA."

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"A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas and forces the citizens to live in the prison of conforming thoughts."

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"Oh shit did you just dis the feminine genderI'll pummel your ass then stick you in a blenderYou think I like Tori and Ani so I can't rhymeBut I got flow like Ghostbusters got slimeObjectify women and it's fuckin' onYou'll be dead and gone like ancient Babylon."

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Amber Hurdle

"I was pure, before you defiled me, and don't you forget it. As though the concept of purity is anything more than the construct of selfish, competitive men stampeding toward the women to call dibs. I'll be damned if I'm not worth stampeding toward, but the prize had better be me, hymen or no hymen."

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"Don't judge people by their religious, cultural, or professional background. Judge if you must, by their behavior with other people."

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Amber Hurdle

"Oh! You are a woman! You are the pure reflection of my mother, sister, and daughter. I can never hurt you."

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"A country is poor not because they have no wealth but because they have no good ideas."

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"Either you are homophobic or you are a human - you cannot be both."

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"We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him."
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"We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem."
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"My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values."
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"You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation."
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"Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?"
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