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In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right an

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago its a sport. – Dick Gregory

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And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede. – Dick Gregory

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War
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Dick Gregory
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Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another. – Dick Gregory

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History
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Dick Gregory
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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that. – Dick Gregory

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Home
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Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. – Grover Cleveland

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I call it people-to-people politics and thats what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what were going to do. – Sonny Perdue

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Politics

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, Oh, Grover Norquist has power. No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue. – Grover Norquist

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Politics

It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country. – Jon Meacham

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Politics

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. – Josh Billings

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I admired Eugene McCarthys courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the Washington Post, I remained an admirer. – Kitty Kelley

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Im more straightforward, and I speak up more than I did before. When I was younger, I wouldnt speak up as much, but now that Im a mom, things have changed. – Britney Spears

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