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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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"Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy."
"Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther."
"The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law."
"Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination."
"Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along."
"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."
"I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian."
"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."
"Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely."
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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."
"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology."
"People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
"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."
"Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind."
"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul."
"Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs."
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