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Workers, Black And White, Need Some Kind Of International Affirmative Action To Protect Them From Unfair Competition With Unorganized Or Slave Labor Abroad And Unfair Competition With Robots At Home.

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Workers, Black And White, Need Some Kind Of International Affirmative Action To Protect Them From Unfair Competition With Unorganized Or Slave Labor Abroad And Unfair Competition With Robots At Home.

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Hymies." And "hymietown.

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I Want To Make America Better!

It Is Time For Us To Turn To Each Other, Not On Each Other.

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If You Wear A Hoodie But Aren't Registered To Vote, You Got The Symbolism But Missed The Substance.

That Obama I Would Like To Cut His Nuts Off.

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You Cannot Have A Diplomatic Offensive Without Talking.

I'm Not Wasting My Time With Any More Non-straight-talking Candidates.

Wasting My Time

There Was A Direct Jobs Program From The Rooselvelt Administration In The 1930s. The Justice Department Has Set Up A Task Force To Investigate The Banks And The Mortgage Crisis But That's A Little Too Late. Whenever They Report They Will Report The Obvious. It Will Be Too Late To Impact The People Who Need The Help The Most.

At Least The Politicians Are Accountable To The Voters.

I'm Too Mature To Be Angry.

We Went Across The South On Super Tuesday Without A Single Catcall Or Boo, Without A Single Ugly Sign. Not Until We Got To New York And The North Did The Litmus Test Of Race And Religion Spout From The Mouths Of Public Officials.

When The Doors Of Opportunity Swing Open, We Must Make Sure That We Are Not Too Drunk Or Too Indifferent To Walk Through.

I Hear That Melting Pot Stuff A Lot, And All I Can Say Is That We Haven't Melted.

We’ve Been So Preoccupied With Getting The Government To Behave In A Fair And Democratic Way, We Were Not Able To Focus On The Private Sector Where Most Of The Jobs Are, Where Most Of The Wealth And Opportunities Are.

My Very First Recollection Of Life On Earth Was Waking Up In Bed With My Mother, And She Was Showing Me A Picture Of My Father, Charles Jackson, With A Group Of Soldiers.

People Always Grow And Mature.

The Only Time You Should Look Down At Someone, Is When You Are Helping Them Up.

Statehood For The District Of Columbia Is The Most Important Civil Rights And Social Justice Issue In America Today.

You Can't Teach What You Don't Know. And You Can't Lead Where You Don't Go.

Sometimes Arrogance Makes Us Overreach. George Bush Jr. Often Tries To Suggest The Leaders Of Other Countries, And It Is Just Not Good Diplomacy.

At The End Of The Day, We Must Go Forward With Hope And Not Backward By Fear And Division.

The End Of The Day

Ronald Reagan Was Older Than I Was When He Ran For President.

My Constituency Is The Desperate, The Damned, The Disinherited, The Disrespected And The Despised.

Black And Jewish Leaders Have Been A Coalition Of Conscience.

The Wiping Out Of Millions Of Homes Took Away Black And Brown Wealth. It Drove Poverty, It Drove Unemployment, It Drove People To Food Stamps.

The Liberation Of Blacks Is Not For Blacks Only.

What's Good For The Very Rich Might Not Be Good For Anybody But Them.

Nobody Will Save Us From Us But Us.

If You Don't Know What Tomorrow Holds, You Need To Know Who Holds Tomorrow!

I Am Not A Perfect Servant. I Am A Public Servant Doing My Best Against The Odds. As I Develop And Serve, Be Patient. God Is Not Finished With Me Yet.

I Do Not Deny The Allegation, I Deny The Allegator.

So Here We Are Today With A New Conversation. When University Of Georgia Plays Georgia Tech, It's Uniform Color Versus Skin Color. We Have - We've Overcome That Level Of Racial Fear.

Obama Used To Be A Community Organizer. He Knows How To Build Communities.

Surrender Had Played Out For Good With Me.

Both Tears And Sweat Are Salty, But They Render A Different Result. Tears Will Get You Sympathy; Sweat Will Get You Change.

I Have Worked Hard To Build Relationships Between Jewish People And Black People.

We Must Face The No. 1 Critical Issue Of Our Day. It Is Youth Crime In General And Black-on-black Crime In Particular. There Is Nothing More Painful To Me At This Stage In My Life Than To Walk Down The Street And Hear Footsteps And Start Thinking About Robbery. Then Look Around And See Somebody White And Feel Relieved. After All We Have Been Through, Just To Think We Can't Walk Down Our Own Streets, How Humiliating.

So Much Talent Comes From The Base Of Poverty And Those In The Margins. You Limit The Base, You Miss Too Much Talent.

Just Because A Chicken Was Born In The Oven Doesn't Make It A Biscuit.

When We Do In Grenada What The Soviet Union Did In Czechoslovakia And Afghanistan, We Lose Moral Authority And Credibility.

No Lie Can Live Forever.

Those Who Have The Most Wealth And The Most Property, Their Children Have The First, The Best, And The Most.

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