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That's why words matter, andthat's why it doesn't matter what words you use when you label people.
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You know, the one mistake that we continue to make is that we label people.
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One would hardly doubt this who looks upon his intensely black skin, and listened to his broken English, though it may be easy for him to mispronounce or the hearer to misapprehend the name by which he calls his people.
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I hardly know which is the worst class in this country -- the aristocracy, the middle class, or what they call the people.
Endymion Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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Some are for commencing their operations with the destruction of the civil powers, in order the better to pull down the ecclesiastical, -- some wish to begin with the ecclesiastical, in order to facilitate the ruin of the civil; some would destroy the House of Commons through the crown, some the crown through the House of Commons, and some would overturn both the one and the other through what they call the people.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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The Assembly have found another road, and a far more commodious, to the destruction of an old government, and the legitimate formation of a new one, than through the previous will of the majority of what they call the people.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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I'd venture to say that I don't exactly line up with James and other "liberal Christians"if we're going to try and label people....and not Spong and others whom I couldn't conceivably agree with on many things.
There Is No Slippery Slope James F. McGrath 2010
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Um ..... that's not a new word people. stop hating
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As the head buyer for promos, I dealt with critics, DJs, label people... some penny ante, some serious.
Binky Philips: Tales From a New York Record Store Binky Philips 2010
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Let's just take it easy with trying to label people.
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