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In the fifties, no one wore beards. In Eisenhower's day, as in the time of the Founding Fathers, all chins were smooth, while during the Civil War, beards were as common as sepsis.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Civil Civil War Common Day Eisenhower Fathers Fifties Founding Founding Fathers Smooth Time War Were While Wore

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The Civil War has a tremendous moral and emotional force.

~Donald Mccaig

Topics: Civil Civil War Emotional Force Moral Tremendous War

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The events of the Civil War are so odd, ferocious, and poignant that fictional characters do well simply to inhabit them.

~Donald Mccaig

Topics: Characters Civil Civil War Events Ferocious Fictional Inhabit Odd Poignant Simply Them War Well

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Thanks to Hillary Clinton, Iran is now the dominant Islamic power in the Middle East, and on the road to nuclear weapons. Hillary Clinton's support for violent regime change in Syria has thrown the country into one of the bloodiest civil wars anyone has ever seen - while giving ISIS a launching pad for terrorism against the West.

~Donald Trump

Topics: Against Anyone Change Civil Clinton Country Dominant East Ever Giving Hillary Hillary Clinton Iran Islamic Launching Middle Middle East Now Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Pad Power Regime Road Seen Support Syria Terrorism Thanks Thrown Violent Wars Weapons West While

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I like the idea of amending the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include a ban of discrimination based on sexual orientation. It would be simple. It would be straightforward.

~Donald Trump

Topics: Act Ban Based Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Act Discrimination Idea Include Like Orientation Rights Sexual Simple Straightforward Would

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As the civil rights struggle progressed, Americans responded to the justice of the cause, shedding layers of the crusty armor that shielded the white majority from contact with its large black minority. There are layers left. It feels so much better to be on good terms with one another.

~Donna Brazile

Topics: American Another Armor Better Black Cause Civil Civil Rights Contact Feels Good Justice Large Layers Left Majority Minority Much Rights Shedding Struggle Terms White

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I think it's important to remember that civil rights and economic rights are mutually dependent.

~Donna Brazile

Topics: Civil Civil Rights Dependent Economic Important Mutually Remember Rights Think I Think

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I had been involved in the March on Washington in 1963. I was with friends carrying a sign, 'Protestants, Jews and Catholics for Civil Rights.'

~Doris Kearns Goodwin

Topics: Been Carrying Catholics Civil Civil Rights Friends Had Involved Jews March Rights Sign Washington

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Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age.

~Doris Kearns Goodwin

Topics: Age Being Being Done Civil Civil War Done Early Forefront Industrial Journalists Nothing Problems Solve Until War Were

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You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Civil Married Red Servant You

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