"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.“

-Barack Obama

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"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both."

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