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I have a few concerns/edits: Instead of ‘U.S. government’s illegal spying operations,’ I’d propose ‘U.S. government’s controversial intelligence gathering’… I would replace ‘misuse of power’ with ‘actions.’

May 13, 2014

Keith Weaver, Wikileaks
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I guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department, or the F.B.I. — not just in this case, but in any case. Full stop. Period.

Apr 10, 2016

Barack Obama, New York Times
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Can you hear me now?

Sep 29, 2015

Edward Snowden, Twitter
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Oprah marched on Selma this weekend. She has a dream that Selma shall overcome The Wedding Ringer at the box office.

Jan 21, 2015

Larry Wilmore, The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore
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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Jun 02, 2015

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Speech while receiving the Radcliffe medal at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
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We are dealing in lethal firearms. I’m not going to let a Nazi shoot in here, or a Klu Klux Klan member in here, either.

Jan 28, 2015

Jan Morgan, FoxNews.Com
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Albums – like books and black lives - they still matter.

Feb 08, 2015

Prince, 57th Annual Grammy Awards
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The movie Selma is a story about the American Civil Rights movement that totally worked and now everything is fine.

Jan 12, 2015

Tina Fey, Presenting at the 2015 Golden Globe awards
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[We remember] Martin Luther King as an idea, Selma as an idea…what can happen with strategy, with discipline, and with love.

Jan 18, 2015

Oprah Winfrey, Speaking to marchers
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If we’re going to have arguments, let’s have arguments -- but let’s make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country.

Jan 20, 2015

Barack Obama, 2015 State of the Union Address
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