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James Green Somerville

"Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world."

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Akshay Vasu

"Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."

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Akshay Vasu

"The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people."

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Akshay Vasu

"It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win."

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Akshay Vasu

"Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body."

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Akshay Vasu

"People are essentially red meat. They are."

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"The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people."

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"I met with people who are already very angry with the tribunal."

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Akshay Vasu

"Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem."

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Akshay Vasu

"The people of our state will no longer tolerate advocates of treason."

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Akshay Vasu

"It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting."

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James Green Somerville
"I began to pray those same fervent prayers, lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled from the ceiling with a message from God just for me."

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James Green Somerville
"We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didn't know that we were any different from anybody else."

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James Green Somerville
"I know the world is hungry for good ministry."

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James Green Somerville
"I have to confess that there have been some times when I was less than glad to be a minister, and some Sundays still when I tremble under the weight of trying to speak a word for God."

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James Green Somerville
"Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world."

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James Green Somerville
"I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer."

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James Green Somerville
"As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be."

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James Green Somerville
"There are congressmen in our congregation, judges, federal reserve governors. And there are also people who are homeless and some who are mentally ill. To be able to talk to each of those people is something that I've had to learn how to do over the years."

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James Green Somerville
"John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybody's calling has dignity to it and God seems to know better than we do what is in us that needs to be called forth."

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James Green Somerville
"I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington."

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