02/23/2009
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"It is rare for people of our sensibilities to ask for law enforcement, to have the Federal Government intervene."
"We are trusting that you will make the laws of this land to govern all of the people equally and justly."
"To say it's OK--if we vote down this legislation, in a certain sense we are saying it is OK to physically harm people who you don't like because of who they are, and that's a bad thing."
"We needed Federal laws and Federal troops to go in to have this Attorney General's sister-in-law integrate the University of Alabama."