"I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect."
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"Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making."
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"Wishing of all strategies, is the worst."
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"Everybody is determined by his own experience."
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"What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset."
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"You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back."
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"It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime."
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"No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty."
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"When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better."
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"Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died."
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"Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules."
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"The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport."
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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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"If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living."
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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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"I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty."
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"On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired."
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"More and more I find I'm really impressed with how much my son knows and how much he thinks like me. But he never would agree with me and he never would listen to me on anything."
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"Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise."
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"The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents."
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