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The argument of those who are being criticized at any time, the civil rights movement forward, the anti-war movement forward, is, it's always outside agitators doing it.

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Mark Shields
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 25
Columnist
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Weymouth
Massachusetts
Mark Stephen Shields
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