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Older women especially saw Hillary Clinton as their last and best chance to see a woman in the White House. And not just any woman:7 as one said, "This isn't just about biology. We don't want a Margaret Thatcher, who cut off milk for schoolchildren.
- Gloria Steinem
The power to make people laugh is also a power, so women have been kept out of comedy.
- Gloria Steinem
The New York Times op-ed page changed it to "Women Are Never Front-Runners.
- Gloria Steinem
Marriage in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.
- Gordon Hinckley
When referring to an individual, including yourself, never use the word 'just'.
- Gordon Hinckley
Woman is God's supreme creation. Only after the earth had been formed, after the day had been separated from the night, after the waters had been divided from the land, after vegetation and animal life had been created, and after man had been placed on the earth, was woman created; and only then was the work pronounced complete and good.
- Gordon Hinckley
This church does not belong to its President. Its head is the Lord Jesus Christ, whose name each of us has taken upon ourselves. We are all in this great endeavor together. We are here to assist our Father in His work and His glory. . . . Your obligation is as serious in your sphere of responsibility as is my obligation in my sphere. No calling in this church is small or of little consequence.
- Gordon Hinckley
I remind you that no man who makes disparaging remarks concerning those of another race can consider himself a true disciple of Christ," said President Hinckley. "How can any man holding the Melchizedek Priesthood arrogantly assume that he is eligible for the priesthood whereas another who lives a righteous life but whose skin is of a different color, is ineligible?
- Gordon Hinckley
Our membership in this Church . . . should never be any cause for self-righteousness, for arrogance, for denigration of others, for looking down upon others. All mankind is our neighbor.
- Gordon Hinckley
No humane being... will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.
- Henry David Thoreau
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.
- Abraham Lincoln
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow-man, without at last finding the other end of it about his own neck.
- Frederick Douglass