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We Are All In This World Together, And The Only Test Of Our Character That Matters Is How We Look After The Least Fortunate Among Us. How We Look After Each Other, Not How We Look After Ourselves. That's All That Really Matters, I Think.

Those Who Want To Burn Books Are Either Afraid Of The Ideas Contained Within The Covers Or They Haven't The Courage To Stand Up For The Views Which They Themselves Profess To Hold.

I Felt That No Boy Should Have To Depend Either For His Leg Or His Life Upon The Ability Of His Parents To Raise Enough Money To Bring A First-class Surgeon To His Bedside. And I Think It Was Out Of This Experience, Not At The Moment Consciously, But Through The Years, I Came To Believe That Health Services Ought Not To Have A Price Tag On Them, And That People Should Be Able To Get Whatever Health Services They Require Irrespective Of Their Individual Capacity To Pay.

If Ever We Needed In This Country To Adopt A New Attitude Towards Homosexuality, This Is The Time. Instead Of Treating It As A Crime, And Driving It Underground, We Ought To Recognize It For What It Is: It's A Mental Illness, It's A Psychiatric Condition Which Ought To Be Treated Sympathetically By Psychiatrists And Social Workers.

To Accept The Principal That "all Power Proceeds From The Barrel Of A Gun" Is To Accept A Society Which Will Be Dominated By Those With The Biggest Guns.