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"The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites."
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"It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals."

"When men decided women could be educated - this is what I think - they educated them on the male plan; they put them into schools with mottoes and school songs and muddy team games, they made them were collars and ties. It was a way to concede the right to learning, yet remain safe; the products of the system would always be inferior to the original model. Women were forced to imitate men, and bound not to succeed at it."

"Some people sit at life' banquet table while others serve them."

"How unjust then to meet that person you love, and be kept away from them only because ones bed is made of hay , and the other, feathers."

"Nothing reminds one of how shitty inequality is more often than the fact that there are companies who make and people who use 1-ply toilet papers."

"Oppression has been in existence as long as man himself has been in existence."

"The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune."

"How strange it is that the house of these hedonic stalwarts is filled with all the luxuries of life, right from plasma televisions to Swiss bank cheque books. So how will they notice the tonnes of food grains rotting in the northern belt?"

"Rather than evoke our sympathy, our familiarity with the lives of the black poor has bred spasms of fear and outright contempt. But mostly it's bred indifference."

"Girls get Screwed. Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things. The way things work, how guys feel great, but make girls feel cheap for doing exactly what they beg for."
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"I dare say that a majority of the American people think that having a fair hearing on an issue of importance in our relations with Mexico is extremely important to our national interest, as well as theirs."

"I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well."

"I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change."

"I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone."

"I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum."

"Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application."

"We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race."

"Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to."
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