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Hate speech against migrants is an important part of what we now have no tolerance for on Facebook."

Feb 26, 2016

Mark Zuckerberg, BBC News
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Legislators have gone out of their way to stigmatize and marginalize transgender North Carolinians by pushing ugly and fundamentally untrue stereotypes that are based on fear and ignorance and not supported by the experiences of more than 200 cities with these protections.

Mar 24, 2016

Sarah Preston, CNN
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We just need something tangible to make us believe that politicians care about us. The wards in Flint haven’t seen any of this federal aid, but we do all the tax paying and all the dying.

Feb 03, 2016

Gladyes Williamson, The Huffington Post
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To every woman who gave birth to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation: we have fought for everybody else’s equal rights. It’s our time to have wage equality once and for all, and to fight for equal rights for women in America.

Feb 22, 2015

Patricia Arquette, 2015 Academy Awards
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This is football, not Hollywood, and I thought it was really outrageous that she used it as a platform to attack police officers who are the people who protect her and protect us, and keep us alive.

Feb 08, 2016

Rudy Giuliani, Time magazine
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There were so many AAPI who had no clue what a caucus was. I frankly did not expect to see the numbers, but said, 'Hooray, people are participating!

Feb 21, 2016

Rozita Lee, NBC News
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I would certainly not bathe a newborn or infant in Flint water.

Jan 24, 2016

Bill Schuette, Fox News
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It took me a moment to realize what was going on, that he was hitting me because I was a Jew. I turned around and realized it was somebody I didn’t know. I realized he was there to kill. I said, ‘Stop, stop, stop!’ but he heard nothing.

Jan 24, 2016

Benjamin Amsellem, New York Times
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The cover-up can be worse than the crime, though in this case there may be no underlying crime.

Feb 02, 2016

David Uhlmann, NBC News
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We're racist, we're racist, and that's the way we like it, we like it, we like it.

Feb 17, 2015

Chelsea football fans, The Daily Mail
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