09/26/2018
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"Thank you, Mr. Chairman."
"I would hope that you would remember what Emily Dickinson called to our attention: 'A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.'"
"I am going to stand up for him. My failure to stand up for him would be a failure to stand up for myself."
"I proudly say that I am a descendant of enslaved people. Slavery existed in this country for some 246 years."