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No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.
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Dream
American Dream
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Person
American
Maximize
Wage
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Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.
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Nurture
Practice
Embracing
Families
Let Us
Policies
Value
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The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.
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Black Community
Foundation
Time Community Long
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Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.
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Civil Rights
All Americans
Civil
Equally
Provided
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I often tell people I don't care whether they join the NAACP or some other group, but you better join something.
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Don't Care
Naacp
Join
Better Care People
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The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.
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Protected
Vote
Without
None
Right
Which
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In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.
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Conviction
Great American
Nations
All Nations
Second-Class
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The difference between a child's aspiration and that family's situation, is the exact measurement of that family's frustrations.
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Aspiration
Measurement
Exact
Frustrations
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As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.
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American People
Led
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Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.
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Tax Cuts
Tax
Invest
Cuts
Let Us
More And More
Richest
Schools
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We do not owe allegiance to any candidate because they share our party or our color, but because they share our principles and our conscience.
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Allegiance
Color
Conscience
Principles
Candidate
Owe
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We are confident that the Supreme Court will soon see the direction that this country is headed and enshrine marriage as a constitutional right for all.
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Court
Supreme
Supreme Court
Confident
Constitutional
Constitutional Right
Direction
Headed
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In a democracy there are only two types of power: there's organized people and organized money, and organized money only wins when people aren't organized.
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Democracy
Organized
Two
Power Money People
Types
Wins
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There's sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk's burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism.
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Burden
Racism
Sexism
Men Black People
Folk
Ultimately
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With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our hearts against the poor in this country is what wounds us most broadly.
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Wounds
Hearts
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Last century we needed lawyers; this century we need big, broad coalitions. When extremists decide to attack all our communities, they must hope that there will be infighting. But we have stood all for one and one for all. That is how we will win.
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Needed
Attack
Hope Must Will
Broad
Coalition
Communities
Extremists
Last Century
Stood
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Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments.
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Trust
Crucial
Discourse
Enforcement
Innocent
Law
Law Enforcement
Needed
Police
Resources
Sound
Actions
Between
Communities
Nation
Departments
Individuals
Place
Profiling
Racial
Serve
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