"People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out……" — Eric Holder
"People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things, they will be characterized in a way that's not fair. I think that there is still a need for a dialogue about things racial that we've not engaged in."
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64 Quotes by Eric Holder
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Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin…
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If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label,
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We are not programmed to bury our kids.
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Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security.
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I don't have any intention of resigning.
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I think that what I'm doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me…
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I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed…
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I am the attorney general of the United States. But I am also a black man,
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When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote…
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Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed…
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Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been…
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There's a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that's directed at me [and] directed at the president. You…
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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