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Language Quotes by Hubert H. Humphrey
- It the Senator can find in Title VII any language which provides that an employer will have to hire on the basis of percentage or…
- People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in…
- The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
- Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.
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- An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot