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"Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together."
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"History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion."
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