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Eddie Bernice Johnson

"Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far."

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"Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far."

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"Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace."
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"Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace."
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"Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business."
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"There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back."
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"This was the first time a woman in Dallas had won public office of any kind - even women questioned whether or not I was qualified, whether or not I could take it."
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"Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now."
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"As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election."
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"The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented."
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