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You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody.

Thomas Sowell

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Thomas Sowell
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: June 30
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