Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Quotes
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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I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.
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Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.
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Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.
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I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit.
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I moved to Lucerne, where I have lived happily with my family ever since.
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I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.
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Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
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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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There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.
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Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
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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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I'd vote for Mickey Mouse before I voted for John McCain and Sarah Palin.
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I've gotten used to the point where I'm so used to being sweaty! I like to wear less makeup and be tougher!
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I won't tell anyone where my favourite place in Scotland is... but it might be somewhere on Skye.
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I try not to be in situations where I'm being grabbed at. For the most part, you can avoid them.
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I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
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All we want is to carry out the greatest expression of a free democracy and vote on Catalonia's future. This is not about independence: it is about fundamental civil rights and the universal right of self-determination.
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It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding,' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.
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Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.
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People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
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I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.
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Where Negroes provide 20 percent of the vote, they should have 20 per cent of the jobs.
