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Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.

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Juan Williams
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
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In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.
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Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.
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Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns.
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Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.
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In 2008, when the real estate market blew up, it principally hurt older people who saw the value of their houses go down, along with their pension plans.
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I think, when you see kind of dysfunction among the Democrats of the Republicans, it impacts the whole country: the way we feel about each other, our ability to speak as one. And in this case, I think there are lots of Republicans who are worried about, does Donald Trump really represent conservatism?
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American people are a little tired of anybody saying, let's get back in war. Why don't we go back (inaudible).
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The truth is that you - people are doing scientific research with fetal tissue and it's not as if - no, this is brand-new news. This is something funded by.
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There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades.
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Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.
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The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The public no longer views unions as their friend, much less their champion. They view them as corrupt, intransigent and more interested in protecting their political clout within the Democratic Party than protecting their members or even school children.
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I think you know what? You've got to believe in yourself. You can do it.
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It's almost a shock to me to go into places, and there's smoking these days. Boy, my life has changed, because everybody used to smoke.
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Sons love moms forevermore.
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For me, the key is I always have to be the same person.If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.'
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Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office.
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I think that you have a situation where one political party, in specific, if you watched the Republican debate, it's all about terrorism.
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In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.
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Mitt Romney, both did better with the military than Donald [Trump].
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I don't think there's any shortage of tough, sometimes vicious rhetoric about President Barack Obama coming from the right. Talk radio shows dominated by conservatives.
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