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Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
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Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.
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I love America not for what she is, but for what she can become.
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Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world.
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I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
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Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.
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The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry.
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When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
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Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
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I have met far more discrimination as a woman than being black in the field of politics.
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I hope if I am remembered it will finally be for what I have done, not for what I happen to be.
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To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.
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Tremendous amounts of talent are being lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
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Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.
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The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'
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Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deep-seated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.
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In the end, antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing — antihumanism.
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America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.
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I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.
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There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
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There is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right, and that the main force behind the movement is a resurgence, in a new form, of racial prejudice.
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As a black person I am no stranger to prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far more often discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.
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That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.
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Of my two "handicaps," being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black. The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
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Some fine men are in Congress, too few, trying to do a responsible job. But they are surrounded and almost neutralized by a greater number whose instinct is to make a deal before they make a decision.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
November 30, 1924
Died:
January 1, 2005
(aged 80)
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