More Hagee Harangues

Hagee Blames Terrorism & Current Recession on… Abortions!

“Used with the permission of People For the American Way [or People For the American Way Foundation].”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2008/05/hagee_economic.html

Hagee: Economic Woes God's Punishment for Abortion

Televangelist John Hagee recently received political absolution from Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League. “This case is closed,” announced Donohue, apparently intending that his judgment would keep Hagee from dogging John McCain.

However, the Catholic Church is just one of many topics Hagee addresses with his trademark style. From New Orleans to welfare to immigration, Hagee continues to confront everyday issues with the certainty of apocalyptic judgment. Just this week, for example, his TV program aired a sermon that dealt with economic issues (a potential weakness for McCain’s campaign), education, and terrorism:

“If you do not accept the blessing of children, and [you] do as America has done, is to curse the children through abortion, you will bring the judgment of God on your society. …”

“The liberal mental midgets protesting for abortion-on-demand are too brain-dead to see that they have brought the judgment of God upon America’s economy. Why are America’s major universities right now recruiting students from abroad? … Why? Because we killed ours.”

“America’s now developing a society that knows nothing about the Founding Fathers. They don’t know anything about American history. They’re “global citizens,” the citizens of the world. And that’s why they can live among us and then become terrorists [Hagee snaps] overnight.”

See the video of Hagee’s rant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYAp3BKXvRs

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MySpace Cyberbully Indicted

For those who think they can set up phony accounts for malevolent purposes:


From Fox News: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356056,00.html

A federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted a Missouri woman Thursday for her alleged role in a MySpace hoax on a teen neighbor who committed suicide after being spurned by the "boy" in the fake profile.

Lori Drew, of Dardenne Prairie near St. Louis, was charged with one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing protected computers without authorization to obtain information to inflict emotional distress on the girl.

Drew allegedly helped create a false-identity MySpace account to contact Megan Meier, who thought she was chatting with a 16-year-old boy named "Josh Evans."

Megan, 13, hanged herself at home in October 2006 after receiving cruel messages, including one stating the world would be better off without her.

Drew's attorney, Jim Briscoe, did not return FOXNews.com's requests for comment about the indictment.

Click here to read the indictment.

Drew has denied creating the account and sending messages to Megan.

U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O'Brien said the federal statute on accessing protected computers has been used before to address Internet hacking, but this was the first time it has been used in a social-networking situation.

"This was a tragedy that did not have to happen," O'Brien said.

Both the girl and MySpace are named as victims in the case, he said.

MySpace, a social networking site, is owned by Beverly Hills-based Fox Interactive Media Inc. The indictment noted that computer servers are located in Los Angeles County.

Due to juvenile privacy rules, the indictment refers to the girl as M.T.M., the U.S. attorney's office said.

FBI agents in St. Louis and Los Angeles investigated the case, said Salvador Hernandez, assistant agent in charge of the Los Angeles FBI office. He called the case heart-rending.

"The Internet is a world unto itself. People must know how far they can go before they must stop. They exploited a young girl's weaknesses," Hernandez said.

"Whether the defendant could have foreseen the results, she's responsible for her actions," he said.

The conspiracy count carries a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. Each count of accessing protected computers carries a maximum possible penalty of five years in prison. In all, Drew could face up to 20 years in federal prison if convicted.

Drew will be arraigned in St. Louis and then moved to Los Angeles for trial.

The indictment said MySpace members agree to abide by terms of service that include, among other things, not promoting information they know to be false or misleading; soliciting personal information from anyone under age 18 and not using information gathered from the Web site to "harass, abuse or harm other people."

The indictment charged that Drew and others, who were not named, conspired to violate the service terms from about September 2006 to mid-October of that year.

They registered as a MySpace member under a phony name and used the MySpace account to obtain information on the girl, the grand jury alleged.

Drew and her co-conspirators "used the information obtained over the MySpace computer system to torment, harass, humiliate, and embarrass the juvenile MySpace member," the indictment charged.

After the girl killed herself, Drew and the others deleted the information for the account opened under the phony name, the indictment said.

Last month, 19-year-old Ashley Grills, an employee of Drew, told ABC's "Good Morning America" she created the false MySpace profile, but said Drew wrote some of the messages to Megan.

Grills also claimed Drew suggested talking to Megan via the Internet to find out what Megan was saying about her daughter, who was a former friend.

Grills also said she wrote the message to Megan about the world being a better place without her. The message was supposed to end the online relationship with "Josh" because Grills felt the joke had gone too far.

"I was trying to get her angry so she would leave him alone and I could get rid of the whole MySpace," Grills told the morning show.

Megan's death was investigated by Missouri authorities, but no state charges were filed because no laws appeared to apply to the case.

Click here for more on this story from MyFOXStLouis.com.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. MySpace is a subsidiary of News Corp., the parent company of FOXNews.com.

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CA Supreme Court Approves Gay Marriages

California court overturns gay marriage ban
Decision says domestic partnerships are not a good enough substitute for marriage.

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Breaking News from ABCNEWS.com:

CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT OVERTURNS BAN ON GAY MARRIAGE, PAVING WAY FOR STATE TO BECOME SECOND TO ALLOW GAY NUPTIALS, THE AP REPORTS

Illegals Are People Too

http://thepinkflamingo.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2008/5/13/3689821.html

Ten Percent of Postville Arrested in One Day

By Contributing Editor S.J. Reidhead

ILLEGALS ARE PEOPLE TOO

"We are at the beginning of a national crisis," stated Ester R. Shapiro, a professor at UMASS Boston and a researcher at the Gaston Institute who contributed research for the report. "Homeland security guards told these mothers that DSS had already taken their children, that they had already lost their children.” Shapiro continued, “A detainee told me the worst night of her life was spent listening to the weeping of mothers who thought they had already lost their children. That is torture, and we have to take a …”stand against that."

No, they are not here legally. Yes, they are breaking the law – a misdemeanor. Some are involved in identity theft (fake documents) and yes it is illegal. On the other hand, they are paying money into that social security account they will never see. For the most part they entered the country illegally. They are on the lam, so to speak, hiding from the authorities. Many are being underpaid, but do you even care about that? They are the target for any sort of harassment and criminal activity because they are now afraid to call the cops. They are using emergency rooms instead of making legit doctor’s appointments. They are easy prey for abuse. Many do not speak English.

They are human beings. They hurt. They love. They are born and they die. They are just as frail and fragile as those of us who are fortunate to be American by birth or naturalization. They are doing jobs people here won’t do – and you know it. They have families. They have children. They have all the same normal feelings that you and I have . They are people – humans – who need to be treated decently and with respect.

There is a difference between a CRIMINAL who is here illegally and a migrant worker who is here illegally. They are not the same thing, and to imply that they are is a canard - a lie. I do not want criminal illegal aliens deported - at all. I want them incarcerated - no parole. Depending on the crime, once they have "paid their debt to society" they can be deported. There are some offenses that need a life-time of incarceration (child molestation and rape). But then, the offenders here who are "legal" need the same sentence. Are children in - say - Mexico any less important than the ones here. Don't they need to be protected just as much as American children? "Red or yellow, black or white, they are precious in His sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world" - not just America.

Funny how a speeding ticket is a misdemeanor but no one denigrates speeders. I speed. You speed, we all speed. Jaywalking is a misdemeanor. No parking zones are misdemeanors. There are a number of misdemeanors out there.

“…A misdemeanor, or misdemeanour, in many common law legal systems, is a "lesser" criminal act. Misdemeanors are generally punished less severely than felonies; but theoretically more so than administrative infractions (also known as regulatory offenses). Many misdemeanors are punished with monetary fines. Usually only repeat misdemeanor offenders are punished by actual jail time.

In the United States, the federal government generally considers a crime punishable by a year or less in prison to be a misdemeanor.[1] All other crimes are felonies. Many states also follow this.

The distinction between a felony and misdemeanor has been abolished by most other common law jurisdictions (e.g. Crimes Act 1958 (Vic., Australia) s. 332B(1), Crimes Act 1900 (NSW., Australia) s. 580E(1)). Those jurisdictions have generally adopted some other classification, e.g. in Canada, Australia, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom the crimes are divided into summary offences and indictable offences.

In some jurisdictions, those who are convicted of a misdemeanor are known as misdemeanants (as contrasted with those convicted of a felony who are known as felons). Depending on the jurisdiction, examples of misdemeanors may include: petty theft, prostitution, public intoxication, simple assault, disorderly conduct, trespass, vandalism, and other similar crimes. In the United States, misdemeanors are crimes with a maximum punishment of 12 months of incarceration, typically in a local jail (again, as contrasted with felons, who are typically incarcerated in a prison). Those people who are convicted of misdemeanors are often punished with probation, community service or part-time imprisonment, served on the weekends.

Infractions are the least serious, are punishable only by fine (and a command to reverse the behavior), and never carry a formal social stigma (examples of violations include parking and minor traffic offences, late payment of fees, and building code violations).

Misdemeanors usually do not result in the loss of civil rights, but may result in loss of privileges, such as professional licenses, public offices, or public employment. Such effects are known as the collateral consequences of criminal charges. This is more common when the misdemeanor is related to the privilege in question (such as the loss of a taxi driver's license after a conviction for reckless driving), or when the misdemeanor involves moral turpitude -- and in general is evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

One prominent example of this is found in the United States Constitution, which provides that the President may be impeached by Congress for "high crimes and misdemeanors" and removed from office accordingly. The definition of a "high" misdemeanor is left to the judgment of Congress….”

The constant refrain that “they are breaking the law just being here” – well it is a misdemeanor. If someone speeds, they are breaking the law. If they illegally park, they are breaking the law.

They are human beings and deserve to be treated as such. Just being on American soil allows them access to our Constitution and our Bill of Rights. If not, then those sacred entities are absolutely no good. What are those who oppose illegal aliens afraid of? Are they afraid these precious laws will be extended – equally?

Why do they fear “anchor babies”?

These people are human. They have the same feelings we all have. Their children, who are legal American citizens have feelings. Do you think they are sub-human and have no cognitive thought? They can be hurt. They have hearts that can be broken. They have the same capacity for love and hate we all have. And this is the problem. By destroying these families – either sending these children to a country where THEY HAVE NO LEGAL RIGHTS and are illegal invaders themselves – or by deporting their parents – our anti-immigration supporters are breeding an entire generation – several million – young people who will hate this nation. They will be able to vote. Ten years from now, when they start coming of age en masse it isn’t going to be pretty.

This is how you create a generation of terrorists.

It is important to think things through before you act. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. There are going to be unintended consequences of these mass deportations, and the children who are left alone – here. We are going to be paying for those consequences for many decades to come.

There are greater laws than those man creates. Christ taught us how to care for people – with love. Our anti-immigration supporters are acting with hate.

Deal with it.

HOW TO DESTROY A TOWN

Fully 10% of the residents of Postville were arrested yesterday. Today a third of the students were not in school. There are about 2 weeks left of school. There’s no reason for them not to finish the year. Iowa is sending in state agencies (at the cost of millions of dollars) to try and assist the community, which could be destroyed over the raids. Mayor Bob Penrod is furious.

“…"They've had investigations before, but not in such a magnitude that it would disrupt the whole town like it has," he said.
 
Penrod fears that Agriprocessors might shut its doors.
 
"If Ag leaves, it'll be a ghost town here," he said. "It's not like Swift in Marshalltown. When that happens here, it has a huge, huge impact. We didn't need this. This literally blew our town away."
 
Penrod said he and other city leaders will seek government help in renewing the immigrants' green cards and also money to help the immigrants cope with lost wages because of the raid…”

HUMANE TREATMENT? ICE is saying that people are being treated “humanely” but are being denied access to telephones, their children, and as of this morning, had not been allowed to eat anything.

Read the rest of the article at the link: http://thepinkflamingo.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2008/5/13/3689821.html

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Sender of Internet Threats Expected to Plead Guilty

Man accused of writing hateful letters expected to plead guilty

Zanesville Times Recorder Thu, 15 May 2008 3:45 AM PDT

CLEVELAND - A man accused of writing racially hateful letters to blacks, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is expected to plead guilty in federal court Thursday.

David Tuason, 46, of the Cleveland suburb of Pepper Pike, is accused of writing threatening letters over two decades, often targeting black men seen with white women.

Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Edwards and Donna Grill, an assistant public defender representing Tuason, say they expect him to enter a plea agreement admitting to charges of transmitting threatening interstate communications and mailing threatening communications.

Authorities say FBI agents found Tuason a few months ago when he started sending messages via e-mail instead of U.S. mail.

The letters dated back to the late 1980s, seemed to stop in the early 1990s, but started again later that decade.

Letters and e-mails described in the charges contain threats of violence based on racial hatred. New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, Miami Dolphins defensive lineman Jason Taylor and actor Taye Diggs were among those believed to have been targets.

According to the April 9 indictment, Tuason sent a letter to the Supreme Court on July 25, 2003, addressed to an associate justice of the court referred to as "CT." The indictment only used the initials of victims.

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Hagee Continues to Push Hatred

We have previous reported on Pastor Hagee's hatred and bigotry against Jews, Catholics, blacks, hispanics, homosexuals and immigrants. Hagee has endorsed John McCain for president, and McCain says he's proud of the endorsement. At times McCain (who in 2000 labeled Hagee a "hate monger") condemns some of Hagee's specific statements, yet has refused to disavow the endorsement of this hate-filled racist who pursues Armagedonite theology.

Recently Hagee called Catholics supporters of Adolf Hitler, and labeled the Catholic Church "the whore of Babylon". Due to the uproar caused by those remarks, Hagee is issuing a half-hearted apology (see story below.)

McCain Backer John Hagee Apologizes to Catholics

Elizabeth Holmes reports on the presidential race.

John Hagee, the controversial evangelical pastor who endorsed John McCain, will issue a letter of apology to Catholics today for inflammatory remarks he has made, including accusing the Roman Catholic Church of supporting Adolf Hitler and calling it “The Great Whore.” (See a copy of the letter PDF.)

“Out of a desire to advance greater unity among Catholics and Evangelicals in promoting the common good, I want to express my deep regret for any comments that Catholics have found hurtful,” Hagee wrote, according to an advanced copy of the letter reviewed by Washington Wire. “After engaging in constructive dialogue with Catholic friends and leaders, I now have an improved understanding of the Catholic Church, its relation to the Jewish faith, and the history of anti-Catholicism.”

In the letter, addressed to Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League and one of Hagee’s biggest critics, Hagee pledges “a greater level of compassion and respect for my Catholic brothers and sisters in Christ.”

Hagee met with 22 Catholic leaders in Washington on Friday to apologize for his comments, according to a source familiar with the meeting. Despite the McCain’s condemnation of Hagee’s anti-Catholic remarks, the campaign had no role in that meeting or Tuesday’s apology, according to the source who said it was something Hagee did because he felt it was necessary.
Donohue is expected to release a letter in response today, accepting Hagee’s apology. The Catholic leader slammed both Hagee and McCain in February, releasing a statement titled “McCain Embraces Bigot.”

(read the full story at the link)

(Editorial Comment here): Christ died for all mankind, not just for Evangelicals. Jesus taught us that hatred is wrong, and that we are to love our neighbor. It seems some people slept through that part of Sunday School.

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Bush's Pastor Supports Obama

An interesting news story:

Bush's Pastor, Obama's Supporter In an exclusive interview, the Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell discusses his roles as spiritual advisor to President Bush and advocate for Barack Obama--including his defense of Jeremiah Wright. More...

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Thoughts on Hatred

From Contributing Editor Steve Beikirch, at Stop the Hate:

"I can't understand, what makes a man hate another man.

People are people"

Depeche Mode

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"Every man, my brother. Every woman, my sister.

Every old man, my grandfather. Every old woman, my grandmother.

Every crying child, my child. Every wounded soul, my soul."

Frank MacEowen

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"When we say 'War is over if you want it,' we mean that

if everyone demanded peace instead of another

television set, we'd have peace."

John Lennon

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"Every child smiles in the same language."

Anonymous

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"Unexpected kindness is the most powerful,

least costly and most underrated agent of human change. Kindness

that catches us by surprise brings out the best in our natures."

Senator Bob Kerrey

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"We cannot change what happened anymore. The only

thing we can do is to learn from the past and to realize

what discrimination and persecution of innocent people means.

I believe that it's everyone's responsibility to fight prejudice."

Otto Frank (father of Anne Frank)

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"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean;

if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Where there is love there is life."

Mahatma Gandhi

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"If I am not for myself, who will be for me?

If I am not for others, what am I?

And if not now, when?"

Rabbi Hillel

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"Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first;

nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first."

Charles de Gaulle

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"If all this suffering does not help us to broaden

our horizon, to attain a greater humanity by shedding

all trifling and irrelevant issues,

then it will all have been for nothing"

Etty Hillesum
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"Intolerance: a veil worn to disguise fear and ignorance."

Binda Fraser, Ontario Canada

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"When you find peace within yourself,

you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others."

Mildred Norman, The Peace Pilgrim

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"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten

we belong to each other."

Mother Teresa

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"Just as you have the instinctive natural desire to be happy and

overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings; just as you have

the right to fulfill this innate aspiration, so do all sentient beings.

so on what grounds do you discriminate?"

His Holiness the Dalai Llama

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"Happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no

sanction and to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live

under its protection should demeanor themselves as good citizens."

President George Washington

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"All [we are] trying to do is tell America we are not mascots.

We are people of dignity, we are people of character,

we are people of pride."

Billy Mills (Oglala Lakota Sioux), Olympic gold medalist, author, mentor, youth teacher,speaking about the use of Native-American characterizations as sports team mascots

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"Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned"

Jane Elliott

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"The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye;

the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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"If a man calls me a nigger, he is calling me something I am not. The nigger

exists only in his own mind; therefore his mind is the nigger. I must feel

sorry for such a man."

Dick Gregory

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"In Germany they first came for the Communists and I didn't speak up because
I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't
speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant."

"Then they came for me --- and by that time no one was left to speak up."

German Pastor Martin Niemoller

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"I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him."

Booker T. Washington

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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

Mahatma Gandhi

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"If we leave somebody behind for something as ridiculous

as skin color, we all lose."

Janet Langert (wife of Secretary of Defense William Cohen)

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"Marches alone can't bring integration - when human

respect is disintegrating."

"Think of all the hate there is in Red China - then look

around to Selma, Alabama."

lyrics from "Eve of Destruction" (1965) by Barry McGuire

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"Hate is like a cancer. It doesn't matter if you have a

little cancer or a lot of cancer - it's still cancer!"

Unknown

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"You are a human being. You have rights inherent in that

reality. You have dignity and worth that exists prior to law."

Lyn Beth Neylon, Human Rights USA director

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"Everyone knows how my brother died. I want you to know how he lived"

Mary Nell Verrett, sister of James Byrd Jr., talking about her brother

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"Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand

with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days,

these days of challenge, to make America what it ought to be."

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., on the night before his assassination

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"We may have different religions, different languages,

different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

We all share the same basic values."

Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary General

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"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human

beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.

Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages

the tormentor, never the tormented."

Elie Wiesel
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"As long as you keep a person down,

some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,

so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might."

Marian Anderson (1897-1993), singer

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"Remember, to hate, to be violent, is demeaning.

It means you're afraid of the other side of the coin

-- to love and be loved."

James Baldwin (1924-1987), writer

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"Each person must live their life as a model for others."

Rosa Parks, civil rights heroine, after she learned that she was to be

given an honorary doctorate by the University of Southern California

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"We will remember not the words of our enemies,

but the silence of our friends."

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

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"Prejudices are what fools use for reason."

Voltaire
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"The only good that can come out of these nail bombs is

that they spur all of us, whatever race, age, creed or sexuality,

to work harder to build the one-nation Britain that the decent

majority want, and to bring our community closer together."

British Prime Minister Tony Blair, after the capture of the person

who set off several bombs in the Soho area of London

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"Idealistic and realistic are only separated

by changing someone's mind."

Ananda Lewis, MTV veejay

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"The less secure a man is, the more likely he is

to have extreme prejudice."

Clint Eastwood

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"I have fought too long and hard against discrimination

based on race and color, and I'm not about to stand by and not

fight against discrimination based on sexual orientation. I want to

create a national beloved community where we can enhance the dignity

of all humankind."

John Lewis, Congressman and Civil Rights pioneer

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"When we look at modern man we have to face the fact that modern man suffers

from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his

scientific and technological abundance, we've learned to fly the air like

birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven’t learned to

walk the earth as brothers and sisters."

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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"I believe in a America that is officially neither Catholic,

Protestant nor Jewish - where no public official either requests or accepts

instructions from the pope, The National Council of Churches or any other

ecclesiastical source - where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly

or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials - and

where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is

treated as an act against all."

Pres. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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"Think of it! I, who was once bought and sold, and whipped

simply because it was thought I had opened a book...It is a

great thing to have lived to see this day come." (when asked about his book)

From "Recollections of my Slavery Days," the memoir of William Henry Singleton

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"Be young, have fun, smash racism."

Ben Frazier (Founder of Anti-Racist Action of Texas)

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"Injustice anywhere is a danger to justice everywhere."

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