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"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."

"Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there."

"Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything, I try to do the right thing, I think about doing the right thing."

"I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia."

"We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right."

"No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right."
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"A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation."

"We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility."

"Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party."

"I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people.""

"We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done."

"Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans."

"We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future."

"The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems."

"In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more."
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