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Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.
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Democracy
Diminish
Secrecy
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Violence is the ultimate human degradation.
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Degradation
Humans
Violence
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Both trials are marred with injustice, both are flawed.
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Flawed
Injustice
Trials
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Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.
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Dignity
Giving
Islam
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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Constitution
Democracy
Faults
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Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?
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Law
Police
Protect
Violate
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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Duty
Felt
Volunteer
Asked
Testify
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The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
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Peace
War
Crime
Foreign Policy
Policy
World
World War Ii
Foreign
World War
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A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
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Giving
Libertarian Party
Rights
Take
Gives
Right
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How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world].
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Government
Causes
World
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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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Change
Opportunity
Smile
Force
Turbulence
Use
Life Love Opportunity
Life Love Change
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People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.
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Relationship
Elderly
People
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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Quality
Citizens
Gaps
House
Citizen
Public
Gap
Measure
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If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.
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Kings
Bus
Drs
Heard
Luther
Moving
Parks
Rosa
Dr
Martin
Martin Luther King
Refused
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The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.
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Criminals
Law
Practice
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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Concern
Criminals
Members
Prison
Way
Society Better Way
Measures
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The United States is not nearly so concerned that its acts be kept secret from its intended victims as it is that the American people not know of them.
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People
Secret
United States
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This country of ours has committed the most serious act of aggression in its history by engaging in a war of aggression without a declaration of war by Congress.
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War
Country
Serious
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Our first concern is the security of the lawyers because without security you can't possibly have a fair trial, if trial at all, and that's not been adequately attended to.
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Concern
Fair Trial
Adequately
Attended
Fair
Lawyers
Possibly
Trial
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We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.
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Government
Ideas
Reality
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A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both.
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One Thing
Worried
Either
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The Christian Church overwhelmingly - there are exceptions - who choose to call Muhammad a terrorist. They could call Jesus a terrorist too. I mean, he was pretty tough on money lenders a time or two.
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Jesus
Mean
Two
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A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of state-inflicted death, which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle.
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Death Penalty
Heart
Savages
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Honesty is the best policy in international relations, interpersonal relations, labor, business, education, family and crime control because truth is the only thing that works and the only foundation on which lasting relations can build.
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Business Education
Foundation
Honesty
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Our history shows that the death penalty has been unjustly imposed, innocents have been killed by the state, effective rehabilitation has been impaired, judicial administration has suffered. It is the poor, the sick, the ignorant, the powerless, and the hated who are executed.
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Ignorant
Rehabilitation
Sick
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The U.S. has in its stockpiles more nuclear bombs, chemical and biological weapons, more aircraft, rockets and delivery systems in number and sophistication than the rest of the world combined. Included are twenty commissioned Trident II nuclear submarines any one of which could destroy Europe.
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Europe
Nuclear
Numbers
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Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal will not undo the crime, will not prevent similar crimes by others, does not benefit the victim, destroys human life and brutalizes society. If we are to still violence, we must cherish life. Executions cheapen life.
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Criminals
Execution
Violence
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Impeachment appears six times in the U.S. Constitution. The Founders weren't concerned with anything more than with impeachment because they had lived under King George III and had in 1776 accused the king of all the things that George W. Bush wants to do: Usurpation of the power of the people; Being above the law; Criminal abuse of authority.
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Kings
Abuse
Law
People
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Democracy is just a word. You have to give it meaning. The US is not a democracy. Most Americans do not vote. We haven't had a real choice for a long, long time now. Wealth rules. Corporations rule. The US is a plutocracy - government by wealthy people. Certain people control multinational corporations. You couldn't get elected in the US without lots of money.
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Government
Money
Real
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Impeachment is the direct constitutional means for removing a President, Vice President or other civil officers of the United States who has acted or threatened acts that are serious offenses against the Constitution, its system of government, or the rule of law, or that are conventional crimes of such a serious nature that they would injure the Presidency if there was no removal.
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Government
Law
Mean
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It has never happened in history that a nation that has won a war has been held accountable for atrocities committed in preparing for and waging that war. We intend to make this one different. What took place was the use of technological material to destroy a defenseless country. From 125,000 to 300,000 people were killed... We recognize our role in history is to bring the transgressors to justice.
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War
Atrocities Committed
Country
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