Alveda King Quotes
African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Barack Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
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Politics is the art of the next best.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
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If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
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Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.
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Catalan politics emancipated from the Spanish politics on September 27, 2015. Since then, we've acted with a sovereign mentality, political sovereignty.
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In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
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I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
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I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
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On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.
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Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place.'
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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
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The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.
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You know, people understand fear and opportunity. It may look different, but it's really the same thing.
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People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.
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I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.'
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African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Barack Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.
