"If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority."
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"We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves."
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"Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love."
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"My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminuation, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. It is reason and not passion which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision."
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"Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution."
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"Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment."
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"Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power."
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"There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision."
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"A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good."
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"Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave."
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"Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap."
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"What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise."
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"It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it."
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"I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it."
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"The majority of the American people still believe that every single individual in this country is entitled to just as much respect, just as much dignity, as every other individual."
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"More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future."
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"But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants."
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"Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only."
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"For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it."
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"How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable in creating community."
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