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Quote by Anatole France
The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of th

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. – Anatole France

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Only men who are not interested in women are interested in womens clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear. – Anatole France

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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. – Anatole France

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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are those that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France

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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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I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality. – Alice Paul

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You got to fight for quality art and equality and all the things that were fighting for, the things we believe in. Choice and preference and all those things that we support. We dont want to give up that fight. You got to keep doing it. – Christopher Cross

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