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Speaker Boehner, by going down the path of this lawsuit, has opened the door to Republicans possibly considering impeachment at some point in the future. I think that if the President enacted immigration reform, that would certainly up the likelihood that [Republicans] would contemplate impeachment.

Jul 25, 2014

Dan Pfeiffer, Talking to reporters
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Here are white men poised to run big marijuana businesses, dreaming of cashing in big - big money, big businesses selling weed. After 40 years of impoverished black kids getting prison time for selling weed - and their families and futures destroyed. Now, white men are planning to get rich doing precisely the same thing?

Mar 06, 2014

Michelle Alexander, Public conversation with the Drug Policy Alliance
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I don’t care about your sympathy. I don’t give a s**t that you feel sorry for me. Get to work and do something. I’ll tell the president the same thing if he calls me. Getting a call from a politician doesn’t impress me.

Mar 27, 2014

Richard Martinez, Memorial ceremony at UC Santa Barbara’s Harder Stadium
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A corporation is simply a form of organization used by human beings to achieve desired ends. Protecting the free-exercise rights of corporations like Hobby Lobby, Conestoga, and Mardel protects the religious liberty of the humans who own and control those companies.

Jun 30, 2014

Samuel Alito, Written majority opinion on Burwell vs Hobby Lobby Stores Inc
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Is it illegal for me to ask what religion a corporation is during a job interview?

Jun 30, 2014

Mat Jonan, Twitter
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[1991] doesn’t feel that long ago to you and me. But…a generation of people who don’t even know that it happened are now going into work and experiencing this. They see the signs now that say ‘sexual harassment is prohibited,’ but they don’t know how we got there.

Mar 13, 2014

Anita Hill, Interview on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
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Look, we’ll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.

Oct 26, 2013

Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
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If Trayvon Martin had been born white he would be alive today. That has been established beyond all reasonable doubt. If he had been white, he never would have been stalked by Zimmerman, there would have been no fight, no funeral, no trial, no verdict. It is the Zimmerman mindset that must be found guilty - far more than the man himself. It is a mindset that views black men and boys as nothing but a threat, good for nothing, up to no good no matter who they are or what they are doing. It is the Zimmerman mindset that has birthed a penal system unprecedented in world history, and relegated millions to a permanent undercaste.

Jul 13, 2013

Michelle Alexander, Facebook.com
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The justices are human — and the more we let them be human, the better job they will do.

Feb 13, 2011

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Isolated justices make isolated decisions.

Feb 13, 2011

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