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"Apparently some people (who don't know history) seem to think that marriage 'always has been' exclusively between males and females - and that this modern inequality somehow justifies the enforced continuation of this inequality."

"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."

"Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after."

"When you marry you marry the known and unknown man or woman."

"That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage."

"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences."

"I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage."
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"Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood."

"I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense."

"I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation."

"Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others."

"If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children."

"Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people."

"There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens."

"Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation."
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