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The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual's right to it ... 
The time has come to repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' It is the right thing to do. Ev... 
The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Is... 
Ignoring all prejudices of caste, creed, class, color, sex, or race, a swami follows the precepts of... 
Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage eq... 
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the princi... 
When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for all - we can't be talking about for a... 
Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is co... 
True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith,... 
Sex is God's joke on human beings. 
I am sick and tired of hearing that it is our moral duty to serve the state, because conservatives b... 
We should all be able to live as human beings - and to be recognized as such by the societies we liv... 
The human race has improved everything, but the human race. 
I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human bein... 
Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalist... 
Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing. 
So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked ... 
The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natura... 
Old white guys can be a funny bunch, can't they? The same anti-same-sex marriage, anti-affirmati... 
I've always been a sucker for any technology engineered primarily for the entertainment of the h... 
A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them ... 
Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no pr... 
Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translate... 
This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies... 
The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is di... 
People say that human rights is a Western construct foisted on others. But that's not true. Equa... 
I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of thei... 
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equali... 
Everything human beings can imagine has been thrown at injustice, and injustice just absorbs it, and... 
We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. ... 
Everyone can be a leader irrespective of their age, race, creed, nationality or political affiliatio... 
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or t... 
'Don Quixote' is a very political book that has been used by diplomats, politicians, guerril... 
I've praised Obama's record on same-sex equality as enthusiastically as anyone: it's one... 
We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right... 
We are starting in the days where there is no discrimination, no distinction between one community a... 
Bear in mind, practice is more important than principle. Principles without practice is worthless. H... 
A novel examines not reality but existence. And existence is not what has occurred, existence is the... 
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings. 
We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market pri... 
Senator McCain is Israel's most unconditional ally in Mossad's machinations, something that ... 
In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the incr... 
It's an Islamic principle that you must follow the law of the land where you reside. 
From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital ... 
As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human ... 
As an indigenous leader from Bolivia, I know what exclusion looks like. Before 1952, my people were ... 
No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his co... 
Dreams from 1991 are becoming reality. We will build good relations between nations and people. We w... 
Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go ... 
Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. Belie... 
It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own... 
Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a com... 
We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this ... 
The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human mi... 
I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I co... 
The people who believe themselves to be on the left, and who defend the agents of Islam in the name ... 
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compas... 
Email has the virtue - sounds like a bad thing, but it's the virtue of being the lowest common d... 
If, by chance, you were to meet me at the Casablanca airport or on a boat sailing from Tangiers, you... 
In the 1920s, big names in the Arab world spoke of Scheherazade as an example for intellectuals figh... 
While Muslim men describe themselves as insecure in their harems, real or imagined, Westerners descr... 