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You can gerrymander one district, but it's very difficult to gerrymander the whole country.

Allard K. Lowenstein

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Allard K. Lowenstein
Age: 51 †
Born: 1929
Born: January 16
Died: 1980
Died: March 14
Diplomat
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Newark
New Jersey
Allard Lowenstein
Allard Kenneth Lowenstein
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There's no eleventh commandment, Thou shalt commit civil disobedience, There's no eleventh commandment, Thou shalt not. What you do is you face the realities of the situation, and decide whether what you're doing will help or hurt the goal you set.
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The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
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When President Nixon said that the American people don't want their foreign policy dictated from the street, unfortunately, he said the most clever political statement I think he's ever said.
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