8 Quotes by Fred Harris

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    He was a little slow yesterday. In another day or two, when he finds his sea legs, he's going to find walking to be a more pleasant experience than he has in the last 10 to 15 years.

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    It became a passion for me, ... It was a curiosity: 'You've done this one, what's the next one going to be like?'

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    I think its a tragedy because its hard to find a school that's going to help teen moms.

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    NASSCO has hired and trained hundreds of employees to build this class of ships, and this award will provide sustained employment for approximately 1,000 skilled NASSCO employees through 2009.

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    There's a really close parallel to France. High unemployment, low family income, inferior education and training, inadequate housing, a great deal of hostility toward the police - we found that the level of hostility in the black sections of these cities was high enough that almost any random spark would set them off.

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    The feeling is that a line that is modeled will rent more quickly than one that is not.

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    In all these major cities, the police were all white, a big part of them living outside the central city, and they were about the only contact many African-Americans had with the dominant society. There was enormous hostility.

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