She showed the world, not just me but everyone, what one person can do, ... She is one person who sparked a movement whose ripples are still being felt, not just all over the country, but all over the world.
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I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year.Julian Bond
When that message is coupled with anti-Semitism, with homophobia, with anti-Catholicism, and with a real contempt for American democracy, then the whole message becomes bankrupt and has to be discarded and set aside,
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The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.
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People who are poor who are living on the edge of poverty or who are living under poverty are tucked away some place else. I don't see them they don't see me we don't interact we have no relation one to the other no physical relation.
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And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings.
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As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.
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