Quote #61

We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.

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  2. We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assis…
  3. We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
  4. We women are doing pretty well. We're almost back to where we were in the twenties. (1976)
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  6. What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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