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Eleanor Holmes Norton Quotes: The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law.
         

The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law.


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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.



On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.



One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.

One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.



You can't win what you don't fight for.

You can't win what you don't fight for.



If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.

If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.



There is no reason to repeat bad history.

There is no reason to repeat bad history.



The spread of feminism is the most spectacular, extraordinary phenomenon in the last twenty years, and I believe we will accomplish our goals in a million different ways.

The spread of feminism is the most spectacular, extraordinary phenomenon in the last twenty years, and I believe we will accomplish our goals in a million different ways.



Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture.

Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture.



With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.



Men without jobs do not form families.

Men without jobs do not form families.





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I take conscious breaks for myself 'cause I like to rejuvenate and get my creative juices flowing. I also like to take my time with my creativity; I think it's important.



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The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.



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It's nothing that complicated, I just want to kill him



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Travelling carries me to the surface, away from the deeps of home-thoughts.



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To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.



To come across a Master and to miss the Master is the greatest accident, very unfortunate, that can happen to a man.

To come across a Master and to miss the Master is the greatest accident, very unfortunate, that can happen to a man.



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When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.



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Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.




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