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On the recordMay 9, 2012
Full equality means enjoying all of the rights that everybody else in the country enjoys. If everybody else in the country enjoys rights one, two, three and four, you have got to enjoy those rights too.
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Julian Bond
Alabama

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Julian Bond explains what he believes full equality means in the context of rights for gays and lesbians.

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