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" In the cases that come before the Department of Justice involving a wide range of unlawful activities, we see repeated evidence of family and community failures. "

Robert Kennedy

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" Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. "

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