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There is never anyone quite so wonderful as the people who were seniors when you were a freshman.

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It really is possible to disagree with someone's policies without hating them. Grown-ups can do that.

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Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

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The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.

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Raise hell - big time. I want y'all to get out there and raise hell about damned near everything. My word, there's a world out there that needs fixing. Get out there and get after it.

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I spend most of my life feeling like I've been shot out of a cannon.

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It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

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Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair's-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?

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Keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

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The trouble with blaming powerless people is that although it's not nearly as scary as blaming the powerful, it does miss the point. Poor people do not shut down factories... Poor people didn't decide to use 'contract employees' because they cost less and don't get any benefits.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: August 30th, 1944

Died: January 31st, 2007

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