Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
There are many Americans who regardless of the intelligence or the profound political persuasion of a figure will never vote for a black man. Not all of them are racists; some are skeptical, and some are suspicious.
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Where Negroes provide 20 percent of the vote, they should have 20 per cent of the jobs.
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I have never yet exercised the privilege of voting, but had I been called upon at the last presidential election to do so, I should most certainly have cast my vote for Mr. Clay.
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Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.
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Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.
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If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.
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We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.
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Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not try to dominate one another. Let's be a collection, like being in the pub with a kitty. When we vote in Scotland, we vote one way, but the other country votes another way and we always end up with what they vote for.
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It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.
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No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.
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You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life.
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Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.
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Everyone in Hollywood thinks like a Republican fiscally by leaving town to shoot everything; they just don't vote that way.
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If you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist.
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The only people that should vote should be legal.
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I don't vote for the guy I trust. I vote for the guy who trusts me the most.
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I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.
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You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for what I believe in.
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I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.
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Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight of them gave me an initial emotion, little by little their real presence grew indistinct they became a fiction for me, then they disappeared, or rather, were turned into problems of all kinds. For me they are no longer two figures but shapes and colours, don't misunderstand me, shapes and colours, though, that sum up the idea of the two figures and preserve the vibration of their existence.
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I've always been very skeptical about marriage, because I only want to do it once; I want to do it the right way.
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...after a certain quantity, photos apparently taken by chance, postcards chosen according to a passing mood, begin to trace an itinerary, to map the imaginary country that stretches out before us.
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The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.
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I don't think it's necessary to put your feelings about photography in words. I've read things that photographers have written for exhibitions and so forth about their subjective feelings about photography and mostly I think it's disturbing. I think they're fooling themselves very often. They're just talking, they're not saying anything.
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There are many Americans who regardless of the intelligence or the profound political persuasion of a figure will never vote for a black man. Not all of them are racists; some are skeptical, and some are suspicious.
