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Freedom has never been free … I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.
Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers, who was killed 50 years ago in Jackson, Mississippi by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith (who only was convicted for his murder in 1994). 
Look, guys. No matter what a girl does, no matter how she’s dressed, no matter how much she’s had to drink, it’s never, never, never, never, never okay to touch her without her consent. That doesn’t make you a man, it makes you a coward.

Vice President Joe “the BAMF” Biden, in a speech launching the federal government’s campaign to fight sexual violence on college campuses (via girl-non-grata)

I believe we can keep the promise of our founding, the idea that if you’re willing to work hard, it doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn’t matter whether you’re black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, abled, disabled, gay or straight. You can make it here in America if you’re willing to try.
President Obama on the American Dream, in his victory speech. It made me cry, because this, this means the world to me. This means everything to me. Every single word. And it makes me hopeful and optimistic. Thank you, Mr. President.
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