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"There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience."
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"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
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"Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress - it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spending in any event, and especially in this time of national emergency."
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"I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend."
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"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
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"Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown."
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"Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government."
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"Every country has the government it deserves."
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"If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it."
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"I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it."
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"The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility."
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"There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience."
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"Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent."
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"We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle."
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"I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived."
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"The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function."
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"An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan."
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"The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself."
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"It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations."
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"The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals."
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"The first need of a free people is to define their own terms."
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