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"The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer."
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"The most dangerous thing to the USA population is not North Korea, it is the USA government."

"Politicians look for interests not people."

"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."

"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."

"Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power."

"The role of political leadership in any society will remain critical to the socio-economic progression of the world. It is however worrying to see the growing number of people, including the youth, getting into politics for economic gain and not for a cause. This, inter alia, is the contaminated seed and eventual root of chronic corruption because such leadership will always be selfishly seeking gain and enrichment from their roles and offices."

"Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of nationalistic loyalties."
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"The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world."

"I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan."

"It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin."

"My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order."

"I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining."

"The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach "one language." No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America."

"National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country."

"James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had."
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