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All Quotes Collection

"Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction."
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"The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it."
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"It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true."
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"Head Start is especially important to Latino children. Latino children make up more than one-third, 34 percent, of all those eligible for the program."
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"It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation, has recognized my voting record."
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"Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas."
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"In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders."
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"Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility."
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"Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence."
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"Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day."
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"Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government."
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"It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people."
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"With a growing population, there is a growing need for more water delivery and storage."
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"To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and America's long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill."
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"Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship."
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"The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights."
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"Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago."
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"The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million."
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"Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs."
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"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."
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