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On the recordJuly 8, 2009
All of my career, all of my life that I have been involved with public policy, I have been forced to have to deal with trying to save minority institutions.
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Waters reflects on her lifelong commitment to protecting minority institutions.

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