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My generation took on political equality. I believe young people, who have graduated into a poor economy, have an incentive to take on much tougher issues of income equality. If they show the leadership they have demonstrated in the last few elections, they can bring changes even greater than my generation achieved.

~Eleanor Holmes Norton

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I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The '99 percent' is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.

~Eleanor Holmes Norton

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As commissioner, I will attempt to see that no man is judged by the irrational criteria of race, religion, or national origin. And I assure you, I use the word 'man' in the generic sense, for I mean to see that the principle of nondiscrimination becomes a reality for women as well.

~Eleanor Holmes Norton

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I don't for a moment believe that women have suffered the same kind of injustices that blacks have - women have never been enslaved. But still, many of the psychological and economic problems are the same.

~Eleanor Holmes Norton

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Affirmative action is the most important antidiscrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination... Affirmative action, by all statistical measures, has been the central ingredient to the creation of the black middle class.

~Eleanor Holmes Norton

Topics: Action Affirmative Affirmative Action Been Black Central Class Creation Discrimination Effect Ever Had Important Ingredient Instituted Measures Middle Middle Class Most States Statistical Technique The Most Important Tool United United States

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I am proud to be an American, proud to represent 600,000 Americans, and proud to be in the only party pledged to make the District of Columbia the 51st state.

~Eleanor Holmes Norton

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We understand that in an open and democratic and free society, you cannot make yourself impenetrable, especially when there are more guns than there are people in the United States today.

~Eleanor Holmes Norton

Topics: Cannot Democratic Free Free Society Guns Make More Open People Society States Than Today Understand United United States You Yourself

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: June 13th, 1937

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