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In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.

A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.

We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.

I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.

I had lived a charmed life, and then I lost a beautiful woman I loved with all my heart.

I don't believe in paying for sex. Which is why I'll never again pay for a woman's dinner.

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.

If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet.

Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself.

In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.

The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way.

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.

America is ready for intelligent talk. I am ready to bring some humanity to TV.