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On the recordApril 8, 2003
I think we are going to remember April 1, 2003, as the day that gave birth to a new American civil rights movement, a second American civil rights movement.
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James Norton
Ohio

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Discussing the significance of April 1, 2003, in relation to a new civil rights movement.

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