Quote by Charles Rangel
The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppres

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way. – Charles Rangel

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I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society. – Charles Rangel

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Society
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Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere. – Charles Rangel

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positive
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We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. – Will Rogers

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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family. – Theodore Bikel

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Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty. – Robert Casey

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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Name the season’s first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise. – Roger Ebert

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Let them eat cake. – Marie Antoinette

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Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young. – Sainte-Beuve, Portraits littéraires, 1862

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