Unita Blackwell Quotes

#1. Politics is not just about voting one day every four years. Politics is the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the road we walk on.

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#2. There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.

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#3. Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?

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#4. The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.

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#5. People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote.

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#6. The big shots are not the only ones who are important. Remember, you can't sell anything on Wall Street unless someone digs it up somewhere else first.

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#7. To make a small town achieve its potential, you need everybody. When a blind person carries a crippled person who can see, both of them get where they're going.

Unita Blackwell