Political Quotes

On the recordJuly 27, 2011
There are those who reminded him of people who might have wanted the rain, but without the thunder and the lightning.
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Danny Davis
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Davis compares people's desires for change to historical reluctance to act on abolition.

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