No woman should ever have to choose between maintaining a healthy pregnancy and a paycheck.
Interpretation
Women shouldn't have to sacrifice their health or pregnancy for financial stability.
This quote speaks to the dilemma many women face when they must balance their health during pregnancy with job security. It highlights the need for societal and workplace changes that would allow women to prioritize their health without the fear of financial repercussions.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech advocating for maternity leave policies.
I work tirelessly advocating for gun violence prevention and promoting common-sense gun laws that could spare other parents the pain of having their child taken by senseless gun violence - laws the NRA's leadership has fought against relentlessly.
Whether it's racism, homophobia, misogyny, transphobia, xenophobia, religious intolerance or other bias - we demand to live in a country where we can be safe to be who we are, believe what we want and love whomever we want.
Background checks will never stop every criminal from getting their hands on a gun and every single act of gun violence - but the evidence is clear that it's the single most effective policy to help keep guns out of dangerous hands and save lives.
Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.
Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and THEN to their children.
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
A lot of black women still carry a lot of pain when they see black men with women who aren't black, and that's really unfortunate that that could make us so upset. It has to do with self esteem.
When I say my brother and his wife are heterosexual, that doesn't mean I'm talking about their sex lives. Likewise, when we say someone is gay, we're talking about sexual orientation, not their sexual activity.
But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
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