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Edward Abbey

"Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State."

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"Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State."

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Amber Hurdle

"If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters."

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Amber Hurdle

"They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion."

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Amber Hurdle

"ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else."

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Amber Hurdle

"I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted."

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Amber Hurdle

"My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm - as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy."

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Amber Hurdle

"We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out."

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Amber Hurdle

"I could never, ever have an abortion."

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Amber Hurdle

"I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion."

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Amber Hurdle

"In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion."

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Amber Hurdle

"But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion."

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"Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down."
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"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."
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"The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals."
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"One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork."
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"We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase 'to live like men."
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"What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul."
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"Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water to sand, insuring that wide free open, generous spacing among plants and animals, homes and towns and cities, which makes the arid West so different from any other part of the nation. There is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be."
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"Reality and real people are too subtle and complicated for anybody's typewriter, even Tolstoy's, even yours, even mine."
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"The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante's paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn."
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