"If your Bible tells you that gay people ought not be married in your church, don't tell them they can't be married at city hall. Marriage is a civil rite as well a civil right, and we can't let religious bigotry close the door to justice to anyone."

-- Julian Bond

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“I know a little about Hack (Wilson) because his picture is next to my locker. I am lucky to be there at the right time. People will now remember two guys, Hack Wilson and myself, and the season is not over yet.”
“To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.”
“The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.”
“To succeed in life one needs two things -- influence and a lucky star.”
“Everybody's got something. In the end, what choice does one really have but to understand that truth, to really take it in, and then shop for groceries, get a haircut, do one's work; get on with the business of one's life. That's the hope, anyway.”
“To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.”

Source : "Oberon". Book by Christoph Martin Wieland, Song 5, st. 30, transl. by A. B. Faust, New York: F. S. Crofts, p. 326, 1940.
“I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business.”
“The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.”

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