"Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws to perpetuate injustice through inaction."

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Source : "For the Equal Rights Amendment". Shirley Chisholm's speech in Washington, D.C., www.americanrhetoric.com. August 10, 1970.

Shirley Chisholm

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“For the nerd in me, I prefer full quality digital files as they give a truer representation of the source mix, the studio in fact. From these files I can quite often tell what kind of set up made the tracks. For the music lover in me, vinyl is more woosey, richer, more alive, more real, more imperfect and somehow becoming more like life itself. But I don't prefer it per se. The mastering engineer in me always loves to hear it as it was made.”

Source : Source: www.hkclubbing.com
“New Zealand totally rejects Japan's proposals to double the number of whales slaughtered in the Southern Ocean”
“Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton Administration, elected in 1992, lingered in naming its team, and as a result, took almost a year to staff its ranks.”
“If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.”
“We shouldn't discuss the world of tomorrow in terms of becoming a balance to the United States. The real issue is whether the United States will define herself as part of the U.N. system-or not.”
“Touch her, and I'll freeze your testicles off and put them in a jar. Understand?”
“When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.”
“Why is it not possible to build a church in Saudi Arabia where as we in the Netherlands have almost 500 mosques being built; why is it not possible to buy or sell a Bible in any Muslim or most of the Muslim countries, whereas we can buy a Koran here on every street corner? This is the exact example of the fact that Islam is an intolerant society.”

Source : Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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