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Selma is now because the struggle for justice is right now.

Feb 22, 2015

John Legend, Billboard.com
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Forget the laws on human rights. If I make it to the presidential palace, I will do just what I did as mayor. You drug pushers, hold-up men and do-nothings, you better go out. Because I'd kill you.

Dec 07, 2016

Rodrigo Duterte, Campaign speech
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I'd go around in Davao with a motorcycle, with a big bike around, and I would just patrol the streets, looking for trouble also. I was really looking for a confrontation so I could kill.

Dec 16, 2016

Rodrigo Duterte, reported in The Guardian
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It seems that in America we haven’t so much ended racial caste, but simply redesigned it.

Oct 06, 2016

Michelle Alexander, Vogue
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I think implicit bias is a problem for everyone, not just police. I think, unfortunately, too many of us in our great country jump to conclusions about each other.

Sep 26, 2016

Hillary Clinton, Presidential Debate in Hofstra NY
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No reasonable prosecutor would bring this case.

Jul 07, 2016

James Comey, BBC
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I’m free and I’m unbound and there are no shackles on me now.

Mar 30, 2016

Ismael Rosa, New York Times
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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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The court looks the other way as yet another federal district judge casts aside state laws without making any effort to preserve the status quo pending the court’s resolution of a constitutional question it left open in United States v. Windsor…This acquiescence may well be seen as a signal of the court’s intended resolution of that question.

Feb 09, 2015

Clarence Thomas, Dissent accompanying the Supreme Court majority decision not to halt gay marriages in Alabama after a lower court ruling
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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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