"When I first arrived in Jackson, which was July 4, 1963, there was a court order to integrate the parks in Jackson. But we couldnt even get two car loads to do that. It was, in a sense, a terrible defeat. The police arrested everybody when they did anything. You couldnt picket. The enemy was the police. It was a police state, thats all. The only police state that Ive ever seen function with such efficiency that in this country there was no way of even getting to notice it."
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United States"Without Jefferson, the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body."
United States"We are in the very midst of a Revolution, the most complete, unexpected, and remarkable of any in the History of Nations."
United States"Race and ethnicity categories have changed significantly over time to reflect changes in the American population. Since 1900, 26 different racial terms have been used to identify populations in the U.S. Census. Preserving outdated terms for the sake of questionable continuity is a disservice to the nation and the American people."
United States"We love our freedom, and we will fight to keep it... The United States will not retreat from the world, and we will never surrender to evil. America rejects the false comfort of isolationism."
United States"A country whose founding statesmen were adamant about the dangers of armed, standing government forces; a country that enshrined the Fourth Amendment in the Bill of Rights and revered and protected the age-old notion that the home is a place of privacy and sanctuary."
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