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By 1965, the year the Voting Rights Act was passed, there had been a full 100 years between the end of the Civil War and the conferral of voting rights on African-American communities.

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Thirty years have passed, and I still feel guilty about that prayer, for the next day, I learned that that missile landed on my brother's friend's home and killed him and his father, but did not kill his mother or his sister.

And the very next time that they might hear anything about the people who had raised them might be a telegram saying, "Your father has passed away."

We passed a bunch of rules to regulate the financial industry in response to the recent collapse.

Now, on paper, she passed my "smoking ears" test: (Laughter) she's an activist from the Right, and I'm an activist from the Left.

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