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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.

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Jack Kemp
Age: 73 †
Born: 1935
Born: July 13
Died: 2009
Died: May 2
American Football Player
Businessperson
Canadian Football Player
Former United States Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development
Politician
LA
California
Jack French Kemp
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The chance to own a home chance to own an education chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century.
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The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.
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I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
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The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.
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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.
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I think it is important for all those young out there - who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands - [that] a distinction should be made that football is democratic capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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In America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this trend.
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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I can't hide my feelings.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich they want to get rich.
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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