"Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got"
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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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"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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"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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"He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for."
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"Beauty and love are all my dream; They change not with the changing day; Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away."
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"Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless."
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"It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing."
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"Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter."
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"Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it."
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"No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth."
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"In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor."
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"I wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn't want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn't want to run for Congress. I didn't want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement."
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"We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation."
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"The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity."
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"We rise in glory as we sink in pride."
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"I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts."
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"If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with."
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"The man with courage is a majority."
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"I always quoted to my parents from Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet." Your children are not your children. They come through you, but not from you. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they come from a land that you cannot enter, not even in your wildest dreams."
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