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| 1. | A march to the sea wouldn't have done Dr. King much good. |
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| 2. | Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls. |
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| 3. | Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance. |
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| 4. | Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era. |
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| 5. | During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians. |
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| 6. | Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House. |
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| 7. | Everybody grows. And I think everybody has certain turning points. |
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| 8. | How can you give Giuliani credit for community policing when he inherited it? He didn't institute that. |
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| 9. | How do you make things fair? |
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| 10. | I am the youngest candidate in the race with the longest progressive record. |
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| 11. | I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes. |
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| 12. | I don't think the American voters are that unwise. |
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| 13. | I go to schools today and I'm amazed at how few students are politically involved. |
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| 14. | I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan. |
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| 15. | I had never, until I was 10 years old, lived in a house my parents didn't own. |
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| 16. | I have been guilty of letting ungodly things around me. |
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| 17. | I may not be of King's stature, but I am in his tradition. |
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| 18. | I reflected about in the hospital, after my stabbing, that I should discipline myself. |
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| 19. | I remember seeing Nat King Cole go on. And Ed Sullivan was the epitome of American television at that time. |
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| 20. | I think a lot of people got complacent; they assumed we'd arrived in certain way. |
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| 21. | I think some people got overwhelmed during the Reagan years-they thought they couldn't fight back, that it was useless. People gave up. |
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| 22. | I think the only abuse I got was when I was around 10 and my parents separated. You'd hear the taunts and whispers. |
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| 23. | I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy. |
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| 24. | I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering. |
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| 25. | I was able to tear the veil off racism in New York. The civil rights issues of the 1950s and '60s never reached New York as a movement. |
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| 26. | I was in a housing project where people were stacked up on top of one another. I knew that there was a better life than this. |
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| 27. | I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march. |
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| 28. | I was the youth leader of Operation Breadbasket with Jesse Jackson when I was 14. |
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| 29. | I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag. |
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| 30. | I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything. |
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| 31. | I would talk to James Brown about a girlfriend, or what clothes to buy. |
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| 32. | I'd never been in a community where the garbage wasn't picked up on time, where the police didn't come if you called. |
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| 33. | I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word. |
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| 34. | I'm in the race because I believe there needs to be a fundamental shift in the direction of the country. |
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| 35. | I'm reading the Chris Darden book right now. I met him on my book tour, and he gave me a copy of his book. |
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| 36. | I've had to deal with the media in ways he didn't. I'm dealing with different ethnic groups that King didn't have to deal with. |
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| 37. | I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known. |
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| 38. | I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining. |
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| 39. | I've seen too much in life to give up. |
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| 40. | If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care? |
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| 41. | If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up. |
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| 42. | If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are. |
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| 43. | If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause. |
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| 44. | In the South, blacks were blacks and whites were whites. In the North, blacks are Caribbean, African, Dominican, Southern. |
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| 45. | In the music industry you meet people who just run through towns meeting a woman a day and dropping them like they were Kleenex. |
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| 46. | It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin. |
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| 47. | James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had. |
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| 48. | Katherine Harris said, You've got two hours to count the vote. Oops, vote count over. |
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| 49. | Many black kids are killed, but the reason people will remember Howard Beach or Bensonhurst is that we built a movement around it. |
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| 50. | Many of those who preach their limited view of Christianity do so inside so-called megachurches throughout the South. |
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| 51. | Most Americans are not voting at all. |
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| 52. | Mr. President, read our lips. Our votes are not for sale. |
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| 53. | My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order. |
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| 54. | My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today. |
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| 55. | National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country. |
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| 56. | One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself. |
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| 57. | One thing people never talked about, after the marches, was how we were able to take such hostility and not respond. |
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| 58. | That was the era I grew up in. Everybody was into something. |
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| 59. | The 2004 election is not just about a new director, it's about a new direction. |
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| 60. | The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country. |
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| 61. | The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world. |
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| 62. | The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption. |
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| 63. | The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer. |
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| 64. | The stabbing, for me, was a turning point. It's time to go to the next step. |
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| 65. | The trouble wasn't our protest. The trouble was going into Iraq for weapons we still can't find. |
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| 66. | There wasn't the same culture of meanness that you see today. |
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| 67. | We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire. |
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| 68. | We must have a president that sees it as his duty to protect the rights of the citizens and open the doors equally toward opportunity. |
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| 69. | We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution. |
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| 70. | We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality. |
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| 71. | We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances. |
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| 72. | We're not willing to give them second chances because we're not willing to give them first chances. |
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| 73. | We've got to understand that all of us were in that car. |
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| 74. | What I'm doing now would not have appeared extreme in the 1960s. |
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| 75. | What we were doing is just what King did. |
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| 76. | Whites are Irish, they're Italian, they're Jewish. It's not just black and white like in the South. |
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| 77. | Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend. |
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| 78. | Why did officers fire 50 rounds at three unarmed men? |
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| 79. | You have more police brutality complaints now than you've had in the past decade. |
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| 80. | You have to always prove yourself, you always have to establish your credentials. |
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| 81. | You sent the Secretary of State to the United Nations showing tapes and audiotapes of things that you've not been able to produce. |
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