"Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary."

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"Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary."

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"The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it."

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"You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that."

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"I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness."

Lady Gaga, American Musician

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"No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle."

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"Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other."

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"There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with."

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"Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying."

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"If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be."

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"You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circle less, but to love those who exist beyond it more. Once make the feelings of confidence and of affection universal, and the distinctions of property and power will vanish; nor are they to be abolished without substituting something equivalent in mischief to them, until all mankind shall acknowledge an entire community of rights."

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"The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule."

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"I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream."

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"I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan."

Will

"When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly."

Conflict

"Your mind is what makes everything else work."

Work

"Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody."

Achievement

"I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals."

Accountability

"Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals."

Unity

"I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American."

People

"I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo."

Expectation

"I hope to be involved in a successful movie script."

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