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"I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me."
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"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."
May,
"Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form."
"To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world."
"If Senator Kerry decides to join us for an hour, then we may only use one or two brief clips. And use the bulk of what he has to tell us as part of that program."
May,
"No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things."
"May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin."
"Daley may be sinking. The hot water has gone from his chest to his neck."
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"I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it."
"I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax."
"One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties."
"I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs."
"I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American."
"I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life."
"I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it."
"I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known."
"Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't."
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