We are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors, and we've managed over more than two centuries to create a way of life that allows for a reasonable degree of upward mobility, that prizes individual liberty, promotes freedom of religion and genuinely values equal rights for all citizens.

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This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.

— Robert G. Ingersoll

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We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.

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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

— Audre Lorde

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Not every seed planted in rich soil grows, nor every seed planted in poor soil fails. That is why we need public education.

— Carol Covin

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You have to remember, rights don't come in groups we shouldn't have 'gay rights'; rights come as individuals, and we wouldn't have this major debate going on. It would be behavior that would count, not what person belongs to what group.

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