Congressman Quote by Nicholas Johnson

“The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000.”

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“Backed by Klan-type organizations dubbed “Red Shirts” and “Rough Riders,” Democrats summoned thirty-two of the city’s prominent blacks and laid out their demands: All…

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Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.

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“Perhaps as many as two hundred thousand black men were snared into the convict labor system on a variety of pretexts. One of the…

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“By 1870, roughly 284,000 blacks accounted for 12 percent of the population of sixteen Western states and territories. But Negroes actually show up as…

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