“Being white means never having to say you’re sorry.”
“At what point do we stop using the race card?”
“Anyone who has taken the time to get to know me, knows that I don’t see color, nor gender, nor race, nor national origin, etc.”
“The Mississippi Klan salutes Alabama’s chief justice Roy Moore, for refusing to bow to the yoke of Federal tyranny.”
“If you think it is O.K. to use the N-word and propone lynching in a song, then a history lesson probably won’t help you. But it can help those of us who do not wish to be racist.”
“Obama tried to blow up a nuke in Charleston a few months ago, and the three admirals and generals — he’s totally destroyed our military, he’s fired all the generals and all the admirals who said they wouldn’t fire on the American people.”
“I immediately realized that this was not something that was a good idea for my daughter to be seeing.”
“No, I only know what I hear on Fox News and what I hear on radio.”
“You must prepare for martyrdom.”
“The first African-American woman ever considered for this post has waited longer for a vote than any Attorney General nominee in history, and longer than the last five A.G. nominees combined.”
“It’s more than special pleading — it’s just plain wrong.”
“Steve King, who said that America is a Christian nation, should not be lecturing Jews about how we should be Jewish.”
“At this point, I should no longer be surprised that some public schools still operate as if it is the 1950s in terms of their approach to church-state issues.”
“We need to give them a little bit of a breather to think about their life decisions that are affecting us as taxpayers.”
“We are not winning a ‘battle’ to gain full acceptance of LGBT people in churches, synagogues — and yes, mosques, temples and houses of worship. Rather, we are helping our faith traditions be the best faith traditions they can be.”
“What made the email even more shocking was that the author, David Wendt, is a Lutheran minister.”
“I’m asking you to please allow him back on the team so that he can continue to chase his dream.”
“Any time right-wing conservatives declare that they are trying to restore or reclaim something, we should all be very afraid.”
“Unless we want a society in which the mentally ill are automatically killed.”
“The legislation included an amendment requiring abortion providers inform patients that a medication abortion can be reversed, despite no substantiated medical evidence to support the claim.”
“It couldn’t be any more perfectly tailored to my moms than if the team announced that NPR’s Terry Gross will also be throwing out the first pitch and there will be a free notepad giveaway on which my moms can write down all of the reasons I should have majored in something more practical in college.”
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