"I had to get a second passport in a hurry."
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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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"Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth."
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"There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day."
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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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"Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement."
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"Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized."
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"Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack."
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"The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers."
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"I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district."
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"My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground."
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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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"Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so."
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"I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are."
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"I tried. But not everybody thought so."
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"I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street."
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"Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts."
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"Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations."
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"Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together."
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