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Molly Ivins Quotes: I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.
         

I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.


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I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.
         



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If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead.



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I know: "Guns Don't Kill People." But I suspect that they have something to do with it. If you point your finger at someone and say, "Bang, bang, you're dead," not much actually happens.



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How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.





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