The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.

~ Spider Robinson

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Being denied their original birth certificates isn't just a problem for adoptees. It's a social problem, requiring social change.

~ Dashanne Stokes

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Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasizing throughout society in the form of a nouveau post-human, consumer hedonism.

~ Bryant Mcgill

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We all disapprove of prostitution, but we do not all approve of purity. The only way to discuss the social evil is to get at once to the social ideal. We can all see the national madness, but what is national sanity?

~ G.k. Chesterton

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I am not your dog that you whistle for; I’m not a stray animal you call over, and I am not, I never have been, nor will I ever be, your “baby”!

~ Joy Jennings

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I say haven’t we had enough of just tossing our children in jail? Make them do community service, I say!

~ Jacquel Chrissy May

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If the only hammer you are given is the Internet, it's not surprising that every possible social and political problem is presented as an online nail.

~ Evgeny Morozov

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The overload of useless ceremonials and worship have crippled the whole nation. If you want to do good to your nation and yourself, then throw away your ancient ceremonials as far as possible.

~ Abhijit Naskar

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Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.

~ Dashanne Stokes

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