Bobby Scott Quotes

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

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Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

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We also know that the death penalty is not only flawed, but is disproportionately applied to minorities and the poor.

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In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

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We can fight Big Industry.

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We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.

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Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.

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Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.

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