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"Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others."
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Source: Press Conference on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 1994, Washington D.C., June 23, 1994.
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