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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in insti

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings. – Simone Weil

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Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link. – Simone Weil

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communication
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Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else. – Simone Weil

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Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit. – Alveda King

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Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. Its about something greater. Its about acceptance. – Charlize Theron

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I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a womans right to choose. I believe in marriage equality. – Andrew Cuomo

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Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth. – Benjamin Tucker

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