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For the trustees to turn away from the entirely reasonable request of the students that a hearing-impaired individual be made president of the college is a very unfortunate expression of insensitivity.

Barney Frank

Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the first place, and the worse news is that it remains far stronger than is healthy for a society dedicated in theory to equality under the law.
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Diversity Equality Under Justice Law
It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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People Politician Use
I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
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Home Income Low Ownership
Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.
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People Speech Tough
These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis.
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Financial Kind Two
It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
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Aquarium Community Fighting
They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won’t be able to be outraged anymore.
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Able Outrage Outraged
For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
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Dealing Eaten Life Stress
Bush senior used to say that we have more will than wallet. So he urged the country to attack poverty with a thousand points of light, none of which could be eaten.
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Country Light Senior
The best antidote to prejudice is reality.
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Antidote Prejudice Reality
The rights of the people who have done terrible things are hard to defend. You have to keep pointing out, the question is the process to determine whether they’ve done the terrible things.
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Done People Rights
I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.
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People Prejudice Religious
The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.
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Humor Opponents Stupidity
I think there were two criticisms you can make of Donald Trump’s involvement in the Health Care Bill. First of all, there were times when he wasn’t being helpful. Secondly, there were times when he was trying to be helpful. I’m not sure which one did more damage.
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Criticism Thinking Trying
But here too it should be noted that the President’s approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
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Firsts Government President
I wouldn’t want [gay marriage] to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has too many votes on this current court.
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Country Gay People United States

For the trustees to turn away from the entirely reasonable request of the students that a hearing-impaired individual be made president of the college is a very unfortunate expression of insensitivity.

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For the trustees to turn away from the entirely reasonable request of the students that a hearing-impaired individual be made president of the college is a very unfortunate expression of insensitivity.

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