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"Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans."
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"People bond themselves into families and groups for protection, and strangers...strangers are always at risk."

"You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich."

"That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees."

"...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth."

"My People: Prepared and never scared, fueled by faith in a sea of despair - we rise and we shine, 'cause it's like that'!"

"I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack."

"Let each of us lead a revolution of support in the lives of others."
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"We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair."

"Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs."

"According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world."

"African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans."

"Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure."

"Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced."

"But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history."

"The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art."
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