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Barack Obama Politician
Country

"This kind of gaping inequality gives lie to the promise that’s at the very heart of America: that this is a place where you can make it if you try. We tell people - we tell our kids - that in this country, even if you’re born with nothing, work hard and you can get into the middle class. We tell them that your children will have a chance to do even better than you do. That’s why immigrants from around the world historically have flocked to our shores."

Children Country Lying
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Barack Obama Politician
Country

"Race is still a powerful force in this country. Any African American candidate, or any Latino candidate, or Asian candidate or woman candidate confronts a higher threshold in establishing himself to the voters ... Are some voters not going to vote for me because I'm African American? Those are the same voters who probably wouldn't vote for me because of my politics."

Country Powerful Race
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Barack Obama Politician
Country

"If we get to a point where people in this country feel more affinity with a leader who is an adversary and view the United States and our way of life as a threat to him, then we're gonna have bigger problems than just cyber hacking."

People Country Views
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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
Country

"You know what the issue is? Do you want to know? It's what these guys have decided to call America. They have the audacity to say, 'There, you sons of bitches, don't lay a finger on it. That is a finished product.'" "But any country is still in the making. Always. That's just history, people have to see that."

Country America Son
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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
Country

"Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. The kind who know enough to roll their eyes whenever anyone tries to claim sole custody of the flag and weild it as a blunt instrument. There are as many ways to love America as there are Americans, and our country needs us all."

Thinking Country Eye
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Barbara Jordan Politician, Lawyer
Country

"If you had to work in the environment of Washington, D.C., as I do, and watch those men who are so imprisoned and so confined by their eighteenth-century thought patterns, you would know that if anybody is going to be liberated, it's men who must be liberated in this country."

Men Country Work
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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
Country

"It is most cheering and encouraging for me to know that in the efforts which I have made and am making for the restoration of a righteous peace to our country, I am upheld and sustained by the good wishes and prayers of God's people. No one is more deeply than myself aware that without His favor our highest wisdom is but as foolishness and that our most strenuous efforts would avail nothing in the shadow of His displeasure."

Country Prayer Cheer
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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
Country

"One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended."

Believe Country Civil War
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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
Country

"An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefitting his condition."

Mean Country Opportunity
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Edward de Bono Psychologist
Country

"It wouldn't cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty. But the world's leaders won't act unless they hear enough people telling them. And every day they fail to act, thousands of people die because they can't afford the basics of survival."

People Country Leader
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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist
Country

"I want to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, the art of balancing the two. It was only later, after admitting this dream, that I noticed the happy coincidence that all these countries begin with the letter I. A fairly auspicious sign, it seemed, on a voyage of self-discovery."

Art Country Dream
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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist
Country

"Time -- when pursued like a bandit -- will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping ou the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you."

Country Doors Hair
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Elizabeth Warren Politician, Lawyer
Country

"What we collectively decide about how to bail out our economy, how to pull our economy out of a ditch and what rules we put in place to make sure this problem does not happen again, will shape our country for the next 50 years. This is it."

Years Country Doe
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Elizabeth Vargas Journalist
Country

"Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India's baby girls. Some 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month in India."

Country Girl Baby
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Emile M. Cioran Philosopher, Essayist
Country

"What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots."

Men Heart Country
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