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" A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing to protect traditional marriages. "
Gay
Would
Protect
" As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses... An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation. "
Whose
Death
Evil
" A vote for George Wallace is a vote for the past and oppression. "
Vote
George
Wallace
" Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's discernment and my father's strength. "
Strength
Proud
Mother
" Civil rights leaders, including my husband and Albert Turner, have fought long and hard to achieve free and unfettered access to the ballot box. Mr. Sessions has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge. "
Black
Vote
Free
" During the bus boycott, I was tested by fire, and I came to understand that I was not a breakable crystal figurine. "
Tested
Understand
Bus
" Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others. "
Justice
Political
People
" Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union. "
Gay
Legal
Marriage
" Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated. "
More
Hate
Great
" Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood. "
Dignity
Group
Humanity
" I always knew that I was called to do something. I didn't know what, but I finally rationalized after I met Martin - and it took a lot of praying to discover this - that this was probably what God had called me to do: to marry him. "
Marry
Know
Me
" I am scared that if Ronald Reagan gets into office, we are going to see more of the Ku Klux Klan and a resurgence of the Nazi Party. "
Scared
More
I Am
" I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation. "
Freedom
Responsibility
Rights
" I believe that women know if their husbands are unfaithful. They feel it. "
Know
Feel
Believe
" I can't help but believe that at some time in the not-too-distant future, there is going to be another movement to change these systemic conditions of poverty, injustice, and violence in people's lives. That is where we've got to go, and it is going to be a struggle. "
Future
Change
Time
" I don't see how you can separate human rights and the rights of all people, no matter what their sexual orientation is. "
Human Rights
People
Matter
" If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children. "
Voting
Think
Children
" I feel George Wallace symbolizes something in the past which America has rejected. "
Feel
I Feel
America
" If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction. "
Going
Peace
War
" I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense. "
Life
Happy
Spiritual
" In the area of economic justice, we still have a long way to go. We have too many people who are discriminated against just because they happen to be black or they happen to be a woman or some other minority. "
Long
Way
Woman
" I suppose I experienced the personal dilemma that baffles every working woman. What happens when you are expected to be Superwoman, to perform a dozen conflicting tasks at the same time? "
Woman
You
Time
" I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented. "
King
People
Think
" I think that... discrimination in the job market is a very important area where work needs to be done. "
Done
Work
Where
" It is plain that we don't care about our poor people except to exploit them as cheap labor and victimize them through excessive rents and consumer prices. "
People
Cheap
Plain
" Just be what you are. And I try to be my best self and be what I am and knowing what I am and be satisfied with that. And if people don't know it, maybe they'll eventually know it. "
People
Know
I Am
" Justice is never advanced in the taking of a human life. "
Human Life
Never
Life
" Knowing what I know now, if I could have chosen parents, I would have chosen exactly the ones God selected for me. "
Parents
Me
Knowing
" Like Gandhi, my husband had struggled with the issue of materialism. "
Materialism
Like
Issue
" Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become. "
People
King
Best
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