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The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #equality #fear

The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#escape #get #new #new orleans #orleans

We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#actions #amongst #ballot #ballot box #box

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#answers #assure #citizens #event #flood

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible. ↗

— Jeanette Rankin

#human #human beings #large #possible #regarded

As an actor, particularly in theatre, you're trying to get jobs on TV; but you're also losing jobs in theatre to people who are on television. ↗

— Andrew Rannells

#also #get #jobs #losing #particularly

I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much. ↗

— Andrew Rannells

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I've certainly played those leading man or male juvenile roles, where you're not supposed to make people laugh. ↗

— Andrew Rannells

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For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#art #faculties #havoc #keep #logic

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#accident #also #between #discoverable #except