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Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word does have meaning. And equality comes when we accept the same notions and the same institutions for everyone, regardless of race and gender and regardless of sex orientation.

~Gavin Newsom

Topics: Accept Against Because Does Equal Equality Everyone Gender Inherently Institutions Marriage Marriage Equality Meaning Million Notions Orientation People Race Reason Regardless Same Separate Sex Spent Understand Why Word

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Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.

~Gavin Newsom

Topics: Civil Different Equal Institutions Marriage Separate Unions

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One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years.

~Geoff Davis

Topics: Amount Billion Consider Days Dollars Eleven Equal Equals Get Hours Idea Million Passage Roughly Seconds Simplest Terms Thousand Thousand Years Time Trillion Twelve Ways Years

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You grow up in America and you're told from day one, 'This is the land of opportunity.' That everybody has an equal chance to make it in this country. And then you look at places like Harlem, and you say, 'That is absolutely a lie.'

~Geoffrey Canada

Topics: Absolutely America Chance Country Day Day One Equal Everybody Grow Grow Up Harlem Land Lie Like Look Make Opportunity Places Say Then Up You

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The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right.

~Georg Simmel

Topics: Another Enclose Equal Great Historical Itself Join Life Metropolis Opposing Reveals Right Streams Those Unfold Well Which

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In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

~George Balanchine

Topics: Better Equal First God Made Men Praises Sing Woman Women

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In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.

~George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Basis Capitalism Cardinal Consideration Contract Distribution Equal First Free Income Interest Left Matter May Play Present Private Private Property Property Selfish Socialism

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In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

~George Canning

Topics: Advantage Asking Cent Clap Commerce Content Dutch Equal Fault French Just Little Matters Much Offering Per Too Too Much Twenty

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We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.

~George Crook

Topics: Civil Civilization Complete Country Dishonor Equal Force Form Him Immediately Indian Indians Just Laws Must Our Past Patriots Question Shame Soon Source Take Thing True Try Will

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America's 'social contract' is equal opportunity... yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal.

~George Kaiser

Topics: Achieving America Contract Equal Equal Opportunity Failed Goal Opportunity Social Social Contract

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