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"The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs."

"The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known."

"There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself."

"What this country needs is more unemployed politicians."

"Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed."

"The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open market."

"You have to understand that once an indictment has been signed, all countries that are signature to the U.N. charter will hand a person straight over. You don't have to go through the normal extradition process."

"U.S. corn exports to CAFTA countries will benefit from reduced tariffs and duty-free access for corn products."

"There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know."
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"Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him."


"There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites."


"I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me."


"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."


"I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people."
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