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35 quotes by Carol Moseley Braun

Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun, also sometimes Moseley-Braun (born August 16, 1947), is an American politician and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999. She was the first female African-American Senator, the first African-American U.S. Senator for the Democratic Party, the first woman to defeat an incumbent U.S. Senator in an election, and the first female Senator from Illinois. From 1999 until 2001, she...
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The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last... →

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Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.

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Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?

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I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement... →

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And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.

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I think Americans want to believe in this country again.

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I'm committed to universal health coverage and education.

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Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.

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It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.

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We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.

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We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

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The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to... →

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All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's... →

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