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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Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. – Susan Sontag

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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. – Susan Sontag

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Volume depends precisely on the writers having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. – Susan Sontag

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All men are born equally free. – Salmon P. Chase

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The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb. – Robert Casey

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We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. – Lionel Trilling

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Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. – B. R. Ambedkar

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