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But at the end of the day, Supreme Court justices shouldn't have to make history.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Supreme Court justices believe Supreme Court justices will outwork and out-organize them and find ways to overcome voter suppression, that's been the history of Supreme Court justices experience with voting in this country -- having to overcome those barriers.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I tell friends and family, colleagues and especially young people that when you see something that's not right or fair, you have to do something, you have to speak up, you have to get in the way.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's ridiculous. It's -- Douglas Reese know, I make jokes. But I make jokes because I'm so angry. I have to laugh, to keep from crying.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think that Trump and the Senate leadership, Mitch McConnell, by their deeds if they so celebrate the heroism of this man, then let's go to work and pass that bill because it's laid out the way the Supreme Court asked us to lay it out.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
He worked a lifetime to help others and make the world a better place in which to live.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Many of my Republican friends fear where he can take them, they feel that it may mean the destruction of the Republican Party.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Housing prices go down, crime goes up, it's ridiculous, we're going to keep America great. We're going to keep our standards. We're going to keep our history and our culture.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
You can not stop the call of history, you may use troopers. You may fire hoses and water. But it can not be stopped. There can not be any turning back. We've come too far, made too much progress to stop now or to go back. The world is seeing what is happening.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
When we were organizing voter-registration drives, going on the Freedom Rides, sitting in, coming here to Washington for the first time, getting arrested, going to jail, being beaten, I never thought -- I never dreamed -- of the possibility that an African American would one day be elected president of the United States.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I have been in some kind of fight -- for freedom, equality, basic human rights -- for nearly my entire life. I have never faced a fight quite like the one I have now.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We do not want our freedom gradually ; we want to be free now, sometimes when I look back and think about it, how did we do what we did ? How did we succeed ? We didn't have a website. We didn't have a cellular telephone.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It would be good to have a woman of color. It would be good to have a woman, it would be good to have a woman look like the rest of America -- smart, gifted, a fighter, a warrior. And we have plenty of able women, some of black, white, Latino, Asian American, Asian American. I think the time has long past of making the White House look like the whole of America.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I may miss a few votes during this period, but with God's grace I will be back on the front lines soon.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
At a time when we are doing everything we can to reduce our cost base, we have unfortunately been faced with regular increases to the service charges we pay for some of our shops in shopping centers.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I can bear witness that the portrait painted of that time and place in our history is very real, it's seared in my memory, black men and women, our brothers and sisters, treated as second class citizens, threatened for raising their families or earning a living, beaten and sometimes killed for the crime of trying to live a life with dignity. Our nation bears the scars of that time, as do I.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We have to do the right thing. We are called to do the right thing, we have been selected, we have been chosen.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Should the public know whether the person who is running for the office or who is currently leading our nation paid the correct amount of tax? In the case of Nixon, the answer was 'yes,' is it fair to expect the IRS to enforce federal tax law against the president?
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We must teach people in power that we will not be satisfied with the order of things.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
These times are ripe for speculation, but there has been no approach to the partnership by Amazon regarding Waitrose, and nor would I expect there to be.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I can not in all good conscience be in a room with what John Lewis has said about so many Americans, i just can not do it. I would n’t be honest with John Lewis.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I cannot in all good conscience be in a room with what he has said about so many Americans, i just cannot do it. I wouldn’t be honest with myself.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
President Trump’s attendance and his hurtful policies are an insult to the people portrayed in this civil rights museum.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
You can not be at home with something that you feel Meet The Press is wrong, is not right.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected. And they helped destroy the candidacy of Hillary Clinton.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
If we are into tougher times, it's our model, our ability to do things that are counter cyclical and possibly even counter intuitive that will see us through.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We were actually surprised that he actually came into the zoo, we have security that monitors the site at night.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I am not here to talk about my involvement in the American civil rights movements.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I never saw him. I never met him, i was involved in the sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, the March on Washington, the march from Selma to Montgomery and directed to voter education project for six years. But I met Hillary Clinton. I met President Clinton.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I never saw him. I never met him, i was chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee for three years, from 1963 to 1966. I was involved with the sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, the March on Washington, the march from Selma to Montgomery and directed to voter education project for six years. But I met Hillary Clinton. I met President Clinton.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think it's important for us to come together in a reasonable fashion.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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