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"The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set."
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"Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority."
"It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate."
"Believing without questioning is an insult to the human conscience."
"Conscience is not white, black or brown. Conscience is human. It is beyond race " it is beyond religion " it is beyond all sectarianism."
"Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can't hear it."
"Every day the choice is presented to us, in a thousand different ways, to live up to the spirit which is in us or to deny it. Whenever we talk about right and wrong we are turning the light of scrutiny upon our neighbors instead of upon ourselves. We judge in order not to be judged. We uphold the law, because it is easier than to defy it. We are all lawbreakers, all criminals, all murderers, at heart. It is not our business to get after the murderers, but to get after the murderer which exists in each and every one of us. And I mean by murder the supreme kind which consists in murdering the spirit."
"It is probable that the most inhuman monsters, even the Himmlers and the Mengeles, convince themselves that they are engaged in noble and courageous acts."
"You'll have to be my conscience. He knew his flaws, and he knew the parts of him that were irrevocably broken. "Mine isn't going to grow back."
"Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience."
"We cannot be indifferent to the evil in our society."
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"Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold."
"If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers."
"We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up."
"When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses."
"The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last."
"I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities."
"My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started."
"In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual."
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