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We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling in the forest with no one to hear them.
Steven Pinker
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If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.


Tim Wise
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I believe you can remember the future as much as the past.


Meredith Brooks
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
Rand Paul
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I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.


Peter Ackroyd
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I believe that there are certain things that could be taken care of that you don't need a strong political background in.
George Lopez
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Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.


Philip Roth
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I believe we all have the right as private citizens to endorse candidates and participate in the political process.
Jerry Falwell, Jr.
I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.
Patricia Ireland
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I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.
Ben Carson
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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.


Thomas Merton
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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.


Mark Twain
I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.
Henry Louis Gates
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I do not want to be a pawn in a political campaign.


Norman Schwarzkopf
I want to be on a show that's not sensitive to racial jokes; I want to be on one where they call me everything and I call them right back. There's blatant racism going both ways. That's what we need.
Wale
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Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
Coretta Scott King
In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
Tabitha King
I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
Samuel Dash
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What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.


Joan D. Vinge
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There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about.


Sinead O'Connor