"Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics."
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"When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.“
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"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future."
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"How sweet it is!"
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"The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible."
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"More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue."
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"But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people."
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"I've always known I wanted a family."
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"And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure."
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