Quote by Susan Sontag
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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Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life — its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness — conjoin to dull our sensory faculties. – Susan Sontag

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Excess
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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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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. – Yiddish Proverb

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Candor is a compliment it implies equality. Its how true friends talk. – Peggy Noonan

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Equality

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. – Barry Goldwater

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There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life. – Harry Bridges

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The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited. – Tom Lantos

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There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast. – Charles Dickens

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Suicide is mans way of telling God, You cant fire me – I quit. – Bill Maher

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