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"America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling."
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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."

"There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America."

"I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers."

"To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing."
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"The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had."

"But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's the uniqueness of all of us. That's it."

"I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina."

"I know who I am. I don't have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did. You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours."

"I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!"

"What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center."
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