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• When women got the vote, they did not redefine voting. When African-Americans got the right to sit at a lunch counter alongside… — Cynthia Nixon
• There's a counter for every hold and a hold for every counter, and a lunch counter for every person that you know… — Bobby Heenan
• What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger? — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Las Vegas is Everymans cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign… — Alistair Cooke
• America is the promised land, because each generation bequeathed to its children a promise, a promise that they might not come to… — Joe Biden
• The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward the goal of political independence, and we still creep at… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at… — Marian Wright Edelman
• The bus roared through Indiana cornfields that night; the moon illuminated the ghostly gathered husks; it was almost Halloween. I made the… — Jack Kerouac
• The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through… — Walter Kirn

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