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All of us knew he was a snake when we voted for him

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Patricia Ireland
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: October 19
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Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.
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Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.
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I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
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I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.
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Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.
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Is a woman raped every three minutes or every six minutes? It is far too much, whatever it is.
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Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.
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Here I am.... You get the parts of me you like and also the parts that make you uncomfortable. You have to understand that other people's comfort is no longer my job. I am no longer a flight attendant.
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the two major parties too often present us with a choice of the evil of two lessers.
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My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.
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Jesus never said anything about homosexuality.
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The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.
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More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.
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