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" We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

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" My generation took on political equality. I believe young people, who have graduated into a poor economy, have an incentive to take on much tougher issues of income equality. If they show the leadership they have demonstrated in the last few elections, they can bring changes even greater than my generation achieved. "

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