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I wish to suggest that ample opportunity does exist for dissent, for protest, and for nonconformity. But I must also say that the right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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Hubert H. Humphrey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1911
Born: May 27
Died: 1978
Died: January 13
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You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a teacher, a mayor, a senator, and a vice president, that America is not a nation of promise.
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We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.
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What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.
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I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.
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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
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Though everyone has an equal right to speak, not all have earned an equal right to be taken seriously.
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We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country.
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Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.
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What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.
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History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.
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Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.
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