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"The president said that he would unite this country, that he was a uniter, not a divider. Have you ever seen America more divided? Have you ever seen Washington more divided?"
"Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us, and that is them. This crucial principle, deeply embedded in Western culture, suffices to undermine even the most precise analogy and the most impeccable reasoning."
"Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and everyone into friends and enemies, we and they, good and evil. The easiest way to unite a group isn't through love, because love is hard, It makes demands. Hate is simple. So the first thing that happens in a conflict is that we choose a side, because that's easier than trying to hold two thoughts in our heads at the same time. The second thing that happens is that we seek out facts that confirm what we want to believe - comforting facts, ones that permit life to go on as normal. The third is that we dehumanize our enemy."
"The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state."
"People nowadays talk about the world's problems like they're reading lines off a teleprompter. They recite what they're told and echo it without thinking. It has become easier to divide people than to unify them, and to blind them than to give them vision. We are no longer unified like a bowl of Cheerios. Instead, we have become as segregated as a box of Lucky Charms. Every day we see the same leprechauns on TV acting like they're the experts of everything."
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"Same-sex marriage has not created problems for religious institutions religious institutions have created problems for same-sex marriage."
"Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today."
"If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech."
"If you truly have faith in your convictions, then your convictions should be able to stand criticism and testing."
"Removing the finish line is a useful tactic if your goal is to just keep running the race."
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