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“When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.”

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I'm gay. I always have been and I always will be, and I'm happy.

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What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore…

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For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a…

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The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.

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If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

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“Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness.”

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Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass…

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Well, in the past, the size of government was one of the more fundamental dividing lines between Right and Left. The Right was supposed…

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You are still despised and mocked, A man too weak and infirm to be God, A God too much man to call forth adoration.

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Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book; I call upon you not to forget the book of the soul.…

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At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as a dazzlingly…

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And if thy heart be straight with God then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book of holy…

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Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled…

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It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a…

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Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it seemed to…

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I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised.

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The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the…

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