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The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.

Carol Moseley Braun

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Carol Moseley Braun
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 16
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Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun
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Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.
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Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.
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If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants.
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I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.
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And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.
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I was very productive as a senator for my state.
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New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party.
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I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.
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I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.
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If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.
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The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now.
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The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.
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I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents.
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