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I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future. – Susan Sontag

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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. – Susan Sontag

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Death
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AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. – Susan Sontag

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AIDS
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. – Susan Sontag

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When equality is the aim, mediocrity is the result; when excellence is the aim, equality finds its true place. – Dr. Idel Dreimer, www.lumpenbangenpiano.com

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The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it. – Robert Toombs

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Equality

I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. Its not Islam. – King Hussein I

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Equality

America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation. – Nick Rahall

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Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy? – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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