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Interesting statistic: In every economic recovery until 1982, working people captured more than 80 percent of the value of the recovery. Since 1982, the top 10 percent has captured 90 percent of the value of the economic recovery.

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Julianne Malveaux
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 22
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San Francisco County
California
Julianne Marie Malveaux
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One of the challenges, I think, is that Americans are not sufficiently vested in foreign policy.
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Obviously these conditions [violence, poverty] predate the [Barack] Obama presidency and the president has limited ways to dent this violence. But funding war weapons in cities, as opposed to more community policing, is not the solution.
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If the Muslim community in Michigan comes out strongly, I think they will make a difference.
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History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.
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Always firmly believing in a higher power, I have also always been in search of a spiritual peace.
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We didn't hold President Obama as accountable as we might have.
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George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.
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If past behavior is any indication, Donald Trump's behavior would not be acceptable.
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African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.
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Indeed, as soon as he took office, Senator Mitch McConnell announced that his top priority was to deny President [Barack] Obama a second term.
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The president [Barack Obama] did introduce a jobs bill that could not clear Congress. The Republicans simply would not work with him.
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References to everybody just disturb me, and it also disturbs me that the people who make policy are not the same people who live policy. When we talk about everybody, we are leaving a whole lot of bodies out.
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He was in Poland to participate in the NATO conference, President [Barack] Obama did respond well to the back-to-back killings, as well as to the attacks on Dallas police officers that followed.
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I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to make their sentiments public.
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I've talked to dozens of Chicagoans who will only go off the record in talking about the manufactured mythology.
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I think that ranked-choice voting makes a lot of sense.
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If people don't know about you, that's not on them, it's on you.
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Ronald Reagan's attack on people who receive public assistance was partially an attack on people of color.
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