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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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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
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LA
California
Jack French Kemp
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Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.
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... giving tax incentives for more labor ownership of company stock will do more to create jobs and increase productivity than all the emergency full employment bills proposed.
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The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
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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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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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I can't hide my feelings.
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Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
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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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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
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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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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.
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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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Every team requires unity. A team has to move as one unit, one force, with each person understanding and assisting the roles of his teammates. If the team doesn't do this, whatever the reason, it goes down in defeat. You win or lose as a team, as a family.
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Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
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