"Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to ensure fair pay for women in the workplace. In addition, he succeeded in getting a measure passed to end discrimination against gays in the military."

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Source : "Obama and the Legacy of Camelot" by Kitty Kelley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2013.

#Military Quotes #Gay Quotes #Pay Quotes

“A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.”
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.”
“I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.”
“Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose our notions of democracy. They have their own traditions.”
“Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean.”

Source : Rebecca Stead (2010). “When You Reach Me/First Light”, p.160, Wendy Lamb Books
“The main thing that I've learned, artistically, is that if I'm in pain and feeling the budding of anger - if I absolutely feel like I need to write a song about it, I'll either need to transform that anger into something positive, or I'll just need to throw the song away. Because eventually, I'm going to want to transcend that pain and that anger.”

Source : "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“The only way to do it is to do it.”
“It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.”

Source : Lyman Abbott (1899). “The Life that Really is”

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