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"And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings."
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"If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random."
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"That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals."
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"The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing."
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"This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other."
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"Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel."
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"The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy."
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"In a constructive policy, there is 'adjust everywhere' and in a destructive policy, there is a policy of disadjustment."
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"Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle."
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"I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy."
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"Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks."
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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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"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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"The First Amendment means everything to me."
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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 do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn't drop out and run away."
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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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"And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings."
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"I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia."
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