"When you compare what people endured in the……" — Eric Holder
"When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia--which was inappropriate, certainly that . . . to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people,"
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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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Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been…
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Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason.
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