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I have met far more discrimination as a woman than being black in the field of politics.
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My present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States: it is a beautiful fraud. Practitioners exchange gilded promises for the most valuable thing their victims own, their votes.
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Politics as it is practiced in the United States... is a beautiful fraud that has been imposed on the people for years, whose practitioners exchange gilded promises for the most valuable thing their victims own, their votes.
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I was well on the way to forming my present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States; it is a beautiful fraud that has been imposed on the people for years, whose practitioners exchange gelded promises for the most valuable thing their victims own: their votes. And who benefits the most? The lawyers.
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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Herbert Croly
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Born:
November 30, 1924
Died:
January 1, 2005
(aged 80)
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