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"My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order."
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"If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality!"
"If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country!"
"Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush!"
"Is your country under great dangers? Light is gone and the darkness is everywhere? You don't know whom to trust and what to do? Read the history of your country! There you will find out the best map for the way out!"
"Here is a tragicomic reality of all the regimes: People work hard to feed their thief politicians, their thief kings and thief queens or their thief presidents! And therefore the tragicomic reality of all the times is this: There can exist no thieves without the support of people!"
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"During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians."
"Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls."
"My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today."
"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."
"The dream was not to put one black family in the White house, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house."
"We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances."
"The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach "one language." No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America."
"The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country."
"I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy."
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