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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. ...  
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable real...  
America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.  
America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same co...  
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Te...  
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment t...  
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.  
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people an...  
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a sub...  
Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jess...  
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets da...  
I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best agains...  
I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send ...  
I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we have...  
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches re...  
If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy b...  
In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.  
Keep hope alive!  
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must brin...  
My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the di...   Politics
Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up.  
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.  
No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high....   Dreams
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by ou...  
Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yell...  
The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the ...  
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiativ...  
Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. ...  
We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the mang...  
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossib...  
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we ar...  
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemploy...  
Your children need your presence more than your presents.