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Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is… — Barney Frank
To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very… — Sri Aurobindo
The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to get your kids born into… — Paul Houston
In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and south. — John F. Kennedy
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you… — Abraham Lincoln
One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think… — Malcolm X
The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to… — Malcolm X
What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. — Jules Michelet
Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought here to Jamestown… — Clarence Page
The way, and the only way, to stop this evil is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right… — Tecumseh
The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing. — Jean Toomer
War is not in itself a condition so much as the symptom of a condition, that of international anarchy. If we wish to substitute for… — Alfred Hermann Fried
Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and industrious… — Frances Perkins
For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She is not acknowledged… — Ernestine Rose
Coffee in Brazil is always made fresh and, except at breakfast time, drunk jet black from demitasses first filled almost to the brim with the… — Bob Brown
Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round, one… — Lord Byron
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils. — Henry Ward Beecher
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you — Charles Dickens
The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. — Robert Collier
Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and… — Brett Favre

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