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These funds will ensure that ports will be able to pay for adequate security measures to protect all Americans against terrorist attacks from our seaports.

~Bobby Scott

Topics: Able Adequate Against All Americans American Attacks Ensure Funds Measures Our Pay Ports Protect Security Terrorist Will

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In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

~Bobby Scott

Topics: About African African American American Attend Children Data Died Dr Dr. King Fact Harvard In Fact King Level Percent Same Same Level Schools Study

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I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.

~Bobby Seale

Topics: About American American Dream Call Dream Future Greater Humanism Legislation Necessary Progressive Should Think World I Think

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I'd have to fight for an Australian role over an American actor, and I already have to do that overseas, so why would I have to do it back at home?

~Bojana Novakovic

Topics: Actor American Australian Back Fight Home Over Overseas Role Why Would

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In the American office lexicon, 'aging' - and its close cousin 'old' - are inconsistent modifiers. While older women are often labeled as 'tired' and 'out of touch,' aging men get to be 'distinguished' and 'seasoned.'

~Bonnie Hammer

Topics: Aging American Close Cousin Distinguished Get Inconsistent Labeled Men Office Often Old Older Older Women Out Seasoned Tired Touch While Women Women Are

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Harvey Milk gave hope to generations of gay and lesbian Americans by encouraging them to live their lives openly and to speak out against the discrimination and prejudice they faced.

~Bonnie Hammer

Topics: Against American Discrimination Encouraging Faced Gave Gay Generations Harvey Hope Lesbian Live Lives Milk Openly Out Prejudice Speak Them

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For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars. I watched the guy who tore apart the cars in the junkyard. I also wrote poems about those guys. I loved hanging around the yard.

~Bonnie Jo Campbell

Topics: About Also American Apart Around Car Customers Deal Driver Guy Guys Hanging Him Hook King Local Loved Poems Rode Those Up Watched Who Wrote Yard

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I think what it means to be an 'American Girl,' and what I wrote the song about, is our freedoms. The idea that we as Americans can be what we want to be and say what we want to say and that we take it for granted.

~Bonnie Mckee

Topics: About American Freedoms Girl Granted Idea Means Our Say Song Take Think Want Wrote I Think

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Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't.

~Bonnie Raitt

Topics: American Back Ban Bomb Childhood Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Give Ideas Justice Known More Movement Native Native American Need Peace People Quakers Rights Rights Movement Share Struggle Than Then Things Those Very Wanting Were Who Working You

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America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

~Bono

Topics: America American Busy Country Getting Idea Just Real

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