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"I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan."
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"If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes."
"If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches."
"Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab."
"There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it."
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"I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way."
"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual."
"The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act."
"While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect."
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"I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining."
"It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us."
"National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country."
"I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes."
"During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians."
"It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin."
"I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy."
"If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are."
"The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country."
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