"The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity."
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"Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being."
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"I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us."
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"The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other."
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"The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something."
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"We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal."
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"First, take the government of the Indians out of politics second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third, give the Indian the ballot."
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"Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one."
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