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"We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve."
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"If I am ever unexpectedly stopped in my car by the police, my response after pulling over in a populated area is to politely and clearly inform them that I am unarmed, I am recording everything, if they want to take me to the police station that they will need to appoint a lawyer, and I am now using my USA federal right to silence."

"You cannot defend human rights without fighting religious fanatics - regardless of one's own religious experience - it is unavoidable. Why? Because they are the ones who take issue with how other people live their lives instead of minding their own business."

"People that have a police car behind them pulling them over should put on their hazard lights and continue slowly driving to the nearest densely populated public place, such as a supermarket or shopping center. Pull over outside the busy entrance and start your video camera. Inform the police officer that you are video recording and very slowly give the requested documentation. Exercise your legal right to silence while the many independent witnesses video record the unexpected stop that rudely interrupts your day. If you are given a ticket, choose to go to court. It will give you time to obtain independent legal advice about the allegation."

"Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing."

"The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right."

"Time will come and riding horses will be seen by the whole society as a severe animal rights violation!"

"It is more informative how we treat things with no defined legal rights, than how we treat things with legal rights."

"Not being treated as equal IS oppression."

"We wish to be citizens of the United States or citizens of Puerto Rico. In either case, with all the inherent rights of a natural sovereignty."
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"When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain."

"I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias."

"We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of."

"Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating."

"When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness."

"Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to."

"One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time."
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