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• The truth is, no one wants to face the fact that there was a huge double standard in baseball, and white athletes like Mark McGwire, Cal Ripken Jr., and Brady Anderson were protected and coddled in a way that an outspoken Latino like me never would be. The light-eyed and white-skinned were declared household names. Canseco the Cuban was left out in the cold, where racism and double standards rule.

  Jose Canseco

  Baseball, Athlete, Light

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• It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities, and almost anyone who comes to our shores, and thereby create desire and with it shame for that desire. Indeed, it is worse still than that: Precisely because we worry publicly that we are insensitive, our enemies scoff privately that we in fact are too sensitive - what we think is liberality and magnanimity they see as license and decadence. If we don't have confidence in who we are, why should they?

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Thinking, America, Worry

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• I cannot overemphasise the value we place on a free, independent and outspoken press

  Nelson Mandela

  Independent, Presses, Values

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.163, Pan Macmillan

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• Polls consistently show that the majority of Americans favour research using embryonic stem cells and yet politicians continue to pander to the outspoken religious minority that is hampering efforts to develop this potentially valuable technology.

  James D. Watson

  Religious, Technology, Cells

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• Labels such as, 'evangelical', 'fundamental', 'charismatic', 'liberal' contribute to polarization and produce a climate of implied or outspoken distrust. Respectful dialogue becomes virtually impossible. What we desperately need to offset this disunity and distrust is a new and cleansing theology of communication.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Religious, Self Esteem, Communication

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• A lot of people, to attack an outspoken atheist, one of the things they'll do is say, 'You are as bad as the fundamentalist Christians.' And my answer is always, 'I hope so.'

  Penn Jillette

  Christian, Atheist, People

  "Penn Jillette on the joys of atheism". Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. September 4, 2011.

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• I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.

  Barbara Bush

  Abortion

  "THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Barbara Bush; First Lady on Abortion: Not a Platform Issue" by Alessandra Stanley, www.nytimes.com. August 14, 1992.

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• I think I write more outspoken than the average rapper.

  Kool Keith

  Writing, Thinking, Rapper

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• It seems people don't read or listen. Our scholars and our media have been very outspoken. We were the first country in the world to hold a national public awareness campaign against extremism and terrorism. Why would we not want to fight an ideology whose objective is to kill us?

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Country, Fighting, Media

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In my world there's no room for hate or discrimination in the White House. I will be an outspoken voice against that every time.

  Catherine Cortez Masto

  Hate, White, Voice

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Being outspoken has always gotten me into trouble. I'm just this little thing and then all of a sudden it comes out.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Littles, Little Things, Trouble

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• I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.

  Joe Mantello

  Self, People, Doubt

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• This book is dedicated to the people of America--strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and brave, with a passion for justice no nation has ever matched.

  Paul Johnson

  Strong, Book, Passion

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• If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.

  Andrew Young

  Carter, Wanted, Jimmy

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• Let's grease the wheel over tea, let's discuss things in confidence. Let's be outspoken, let's be ridiculous, let's solve the world's problems.

  Alanis Morissette

  Peace, Grease, Tea

  Song: So Pure, Album: Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, 1998

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• If you aren't overly effusive or really nicey-nice with the press, you get a reputation for being outspoken or difficult.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Nice, Reputation, Difficult

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 10, 2001.

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• In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Girl, Successful, Reality

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• Donald Trump is the most outspoken, transparent, here's what I want to do, here's what I think we should do. There's no mystery here. But since other politicians aren't that transparent, since they don't act that up front, they just can't accept that anybody would. So they're forever gonna be confused.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Confused, Thinking, Forever

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if they're hanging out with outspoken opponents to your views.

  Rick Bass

  Eye, Views, People

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• I feel like I've come off as an outspoken woman. Sometimes I think I've come off as confrontational. But I feel like it's been pretty fair. Those are parts of me.

  NeNe Leakes

  Thinking, Sometimes, Feels

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• I was raised Catholic. I rejected it later on. I'm an outspoken atheist now. People say, 'Oh, it's a negative thing to be an atheist.' I don't agree. I think it's more optimistic to think that there is no God, no afterlife.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Atheist, Optimistic, Thinking

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• Being seventy has its advantages. I was outspoken before, but now what have I got to keep quiet about?

  Kirk Douglas

  Funny, Humorous, Age

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• Honest and outspoken, honorable and uncompromising, Jubal A. Early epitomized much that was the Southern Confederacy. His self-reliance, courage, sagacity, and devotion to the cause brought confidence then just as it inspires reverence now.

  James I. Robertson, Jr.

  Self, Southern, Inspire

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• I've always loved independent women, outspoken women, eccentric women, funny women, flawed women. When someone says about a woman, 'I'm sorry, that's just wrong,' I tend to think she must be doing something right.

  Diane Keaton

  Sorry, Independent, Thinking

  Diane Keaton (2014). “Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty”, p.5, Random House

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• Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.

  Shana Alexander

  Home, California, People

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