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Referring to Palestinian refugees: "We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return.

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. . . on the whole 'blasphemy' has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which millions of people have come to reject theocracy and think for themselves.

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Young women need to know that abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men (or women) - Presidents, Supreme Court justices, legislators, lobbyists - but freedoms won, as freedom always is, by people struggling on their own behalf.

Know, Men, Powerful, Struggle, Won, Young

When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great missed moral opportunities of all time. How different history would have been had he clearly and unmistakably forbidden war, tyranny, taking over other people's countries, slavery, exploitation of workers, cruelty to children, wife-beating, stoning, treating women--or anyone--as chattel or inferior beings.

Children, Country, Forbidden, God, Missed, Workers

A feminist is a person who answers 'yes' to the question 'Are women human?' Feminism is not about whether women are better than, worse than or identical with men. . . It's about justice, fairness, and access to the broad range of human experience.

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Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices?. . . a resounding NO: misogyny not only pervades the major faiths, it's baked in.

Currently, Misogyny, Practice, Religion, Tradition

Whether you look at Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism, wherever a distinction of sex is made, it is to the advantage of men. If you think of religions as if they were novels, the authors are men, and so are the major characters.

Authors, Buddhism, Character, Judaism, Sex
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