#because

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#because #color #crow #deny #gay

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. ↗

— Golda Meir

#cannot #does #erase #fit #merely

I believe that my children, who are young, will look back on the early years of the 21st century in rather the same way I look back on the middle of the 20th: as a time when seemingly respectable people supported discrimination against Americans simply because those Americans were different from themselves. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#against #back #because #believe #century

It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#before #brought #campaign #carter #complicated

Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#around #because #being #books #both

I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#celebrity #celebrity thing #get #i #i think

I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#because #i #never #people #respect

I like the concept of dressing people. I used to not care whether people bought the clothes or not, but I kind of like it now. I wouldn't label that commercialism; it's more like I do this work because I want people to wear it. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#bought #care #clothes #commercialism #concept

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#because #different #different players #doing #each

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

#be original #because #being #being yourself #exactly