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As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn't drop out and run away.

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Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

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Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person.

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Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.

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You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.

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There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.

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Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.

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Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

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I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year.

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I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years.

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As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.

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I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.

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The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.

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And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings.

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I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980.

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As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

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But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well.

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The First Amendment means everything to me.

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I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia.

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