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"You know, I come from six generations of college graduates."
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"Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person."
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"Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education."
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"I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia."
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"I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years."
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"But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well."
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"I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year."
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"Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service."
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"Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action."
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"I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980."
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"The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place."
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"On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?"
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"I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade."
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"Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions."
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"When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did."
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"But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here."
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"I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky."
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"I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done."
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"I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law."
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"In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises."
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"Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as chairman of the Pell Grant Caucus, I know how important they are for our Nation's low-income students."
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