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"The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy."
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"This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination."
"The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever; it also applies to all territories, whatever their economic or political regime."
"Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America."
"The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law."
"Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along."
"The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased."
"Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America."
"It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point."
"Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther."
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"Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves."
"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."
"Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is."
"The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple."
"All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears."
"We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy."
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