America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.
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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
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The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.
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Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.
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Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
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I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
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People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
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The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.
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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
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So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.
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Be independent and be a lady.
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My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.
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A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.
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Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?
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