A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages.
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The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.
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I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people, and I should stick to the issue of racial justice.
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This was really what I was supposed to be doing, and it was a great blessing to have discovered this, and to be doing what was God’s will for your life.
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I am convinced that the women of the world, united without any regard for national or racial dimensions, can become a most powerful force for international peace and brotherhood.
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Violence diminishes our humanity.
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We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.
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Women, in general, are not part of the corruption of the past, so they can give a new kind of leadership, a new image for mankind.
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Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.
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Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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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.
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It doesn’t matter how strong your opinions are. If you don’t use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.
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Without Coretta Scott King, there would not have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way that we know him.
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Because Dr. King was human and not divine – although we think he was divine, he was just a man, an extraordinary man, but a man – and he would get depressed from time to time and disappointed about all kinds of things relative to the movement.
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To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
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If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.
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