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21 " One bill that I introduced should become law in every
state, but unfortunately it did not succeed even in New York.
It would have made it mandatory for policemen to success-
fully complete courses in civil rights, civil liberties, minority
problems, and race relations before they are appointed to a
police department. "

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22 " America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity, the Christian love that it would take. It is perhaps unrealistic to hope that I can help give this nation any of those things, but that is what I believe I have to try to do. "

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23 " Following along the path of her role models, Shirley knew that if she waited for permission, she’d never receive her turn. "

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24 " Botched abortions are the largest single cause of death of
pregnant women in the United States, particularly among
nonwhite women. In 1964, the president of the New York
County Medical Society, Dr. Carl Goldmark, estimated that
80 percent of the deaths of gravid women in Manhattan were
from this cause. "

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25 " Other experiences sharpened my feeling for how racism
was woven through American life. I belonged to the Political
Science Society, which naturally thought itself progressive.
Some of its speakers, I became aware, looked at my people as
another breed, less human than they. Politicians came to talk
and gave us such liberal sentiments as, "We've got to help
the Negro because the Negro is limited," or, "Of course, the
Negro people have always been the laborers and will continue
to be. So we've got to make it more comfortable for them. "

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26 " The black community had less sense of brotherhood in
those days, and, worse yet, black people were almost all afraid. They feared, and justly, the power the white man had over their lives. "The Man will get you," they would warn. "You
can't win." The few black people who had jobs through city
appointments were the worst of all. If they showed the slight-
est sign of opposing the system, they were warned, sometimes                          subtly and sometimes overtly, "Don't bite the hand that's
feeding you." Many black men who could have become
leaders were neutralized that way. Their jobs were the most
important things to them; they held on to what they had. "

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27 " The main thing I have in common with the kids is that
we are tired of being lied to...If it is not too late for America to be saved, the young will save it – and the blacks, the Indians, the Spanish-surnamed,the young women, and the other victims of American society. They, if any, will become the conscience that the Country has lacked. They will try to force it to practice what it has preached. "

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28 " She didn’t need to be the Democratic Nominee in order to be a catalyst for change. "

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29 " There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price. "

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30 " It is going to have to be the have-nots — the blacks, browns, reds, yellows, and whites who do not share in the good life that most Americans lead — who somehow arouse the conscience of the nation and thus create a conscience in the Congress. My role, as I see it, is to help them do so, working outside of Washington, perhaps, as much as inside it. "

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