"We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace."
-Jeane Kirkpatrick
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"Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.“
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"The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's."
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"Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared."
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"There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion."
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"I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot."
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"I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity."
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"Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it."
-Slobodan Milosevic
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"Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions."
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"Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf."
-Alice S. Rossi
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"The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment."
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"Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality."
-Harlan Stone
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"If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing."
-John Hope
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