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This is kind of the untold story, the story doesn't grab national headlines. But if you look at what's happening in community after community, you see that when the numbers in minority communities reach a certain point and when they start to be interested in voting and politics, there's often resistance - and that resistance takes forms that violate the law.


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Jen turned and punched hi...
HARPER LEE Atticus, he was real nice."

"Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
HARPER LEE I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
HARPER LEE I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a to...
TOMMY LEE Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you kn...
HARPER LEE The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.
BRUCE LEE Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious eve...
BRUCE LEE It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was...
HARPER LEE A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
BRUCE LEE Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it throug...
HARPER LEE My father always used
to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends,
t...
LEE IACOCCA I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, ev...
TANITH LEE You are not flawed, you are as beautiful as you have always been and blessed with evidence of a life...
BECCA LEE She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there...
HARPER LEE As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell yo...
HARPER LEE It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with pass...
SPIKE LEE We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
LEE IACOCCA You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It...
LEE IACOCCA Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserati...
LEE IACOCCA It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
LEE HANEY