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“I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the system on a sustainable basis.”

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John W. Snow

John W. Snow is a former United States Secretary of the Treasury, born on August 2, 1939. He has extensive experience in fiscal policy, economic management, and public affairs. more

“Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy or consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.”

“Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country that will not stock a book by a Negro writer, not even as a gift? There are towns where Negro newspapers and magazines cannot be sold except surreptitiously. There are American magazines that have never published anything by Negroes. There are film studios that have never hired a Negro writer. Censorship for us begins at the color line.”

Knows Has Beens Book Country Film Black Lines Our Lives Color Towns Library Injustice Studios Newspapers Magazines Our Country Do You Know Censorship

Author:Langston Hughes

“We were not talking about the average white person: we was talking about the corporate money rich and the racist jive politicians and the lackeys, as we used to call them, for the government who perpetuate all this exploitation and racism.”

Persons Government Used Black White Talking Rich Politician Racism Injustice Average Corporate Racist Exploitation Not Talking Lackeys

Author:Bobby Seale

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