The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.
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In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.
I am committed to ensuring that the president of a country like ours must not live in a style which is totally different from that of the masses of the people who put him in power.
The American people are infected with racism-that is the peril. Paradoxically, they are also infected with democratic ideals-that is the hope.
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