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"Great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis."



General John Allen, Wide Angle
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"In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest."



William McKinley, Partners in Leadership Inc.
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Each and every one of us has the capacity to be an oppressor. I want to encourage each and every one of us to interrogate how we might be an oppressor and how we might be able to become liberators for ourselves and for each other.



Laverne Cox, Global Citizen
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Control is how power maintains itself; anyone who expresses another perspective is punished.



Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary
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"Trump’s position stupefies. In essence: Authorities can’t investigate anything touching his personal affairs — including, ahem, payments to pornographic actresses — because he’s president. Think of the logic: Not only does the president enjoy a personal constitutional immunity — his businesses do, too."

May 8, 2020

George Conway, The Washington Post
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Donald Trump must be convicted and removed from office. Because he will always choose his own personal interest over our national interest. Because in America, right matters. Truth matters. If not, no Constitution can protect us. If not, we are lost.

January 23, 2020

Adam Schiff, Twitter.com
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We’ve had the cameras for about eight months. It’s not second nature for officers to put those cameras on yet.

Jul 21, 2017

Janeé Harteau, New York Times
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It would be a disservice not to understand some of the inequities of college sports. This is a big money business, and the athletes are used for financial gain, while the NCAA cherry-picks infractions.

Mar 16, 2017

Claire McCaskill, Politico
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