"Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?"
-Kurt Vonnegut
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"If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy."
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"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."
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"About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm."
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"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."
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"All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true."
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"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil."
-Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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"Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality."
-Erich Fromm
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"One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man."
-Marlo Thomas
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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
-Anatole France
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"As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones."
-Steven Pinker
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