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For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

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In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

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There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can be no progress.

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When I took the SAT, I didn't get accepted into a single white school that I applied to. Now I've got honorary degrees from a lot of those schools that rejected me. Things are different now, but not that much different.

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I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.

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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

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There is no safer place to put your money than in the middle of the U.S.

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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

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Everybody is determined by his own experience.

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I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.

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Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

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President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.

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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

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I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.

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I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.

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There is a sense in which the United States ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.

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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

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My feeling is that you don't go looking for troubles. The cross ought to find you. And so I never go out of my way. I figure I only get involved in things that I can't get around.

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My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

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