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"ref": "1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., “Transformed Nonconformist”, in Strength to Love, New York: Pocket Books, published 1964, →OCLC, page 13",
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"ref": "1971, Lyndon B. Johnson, “\"I feel like I have already been here a year\"”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 18",
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"text": "Of course, living in the South was never an option—the main problem being they have too much respect for authority; they're soldier-sniffers and cop lovers. I don't respect that, and I could never live with it. There's also way too much religion in the South to be consistent with good mental health.",
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"ref": "2003, Hillary Rodham Clinton, “University of Life”, in Living History, →OCLC, pages 22–23",
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"text": "I should add a story, you know in the South at that time, Governor Barnett was sort of known as a bit of a dim bulb. And two years before, during the presidential campaign, one of the flashpoints in the debates that fall involved two Nationalist Chinese islands just off the coast of China: Quemoy and Matsu. And right after this argument erupted in the campaign, Ross Barnett was out politicking one day and the reporters asked him, \"Governor, what about Quemoy and Matsu?\" And he looked around sort of lost and said to one of his aides, \"Them those two fellers I put on the Fishing and Game Commission last year?\"",
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