02/02/1998
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"Thanks to you, the century is ending not with helpless indignation over such unspeakable cruelty but with its opposite, a ringing affirmation by free people of human dignity."
"Now is the time for us to take strong and decisive action to end all hate crimes."
"I absolutely reject the theory that some people have advanced that what he did was worse than he would have done if we hadn't bombed as early as we did."
"We cannot achieve true tolerance merely through legislation; we must change hearts and minds as well."