Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
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There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.
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Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.
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Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.
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