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Alvin Ailey

"One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people."

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"One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people."

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"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."

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"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."

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"I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble."

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"You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in."

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