Charles B Rangel Quotes

• Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide’s removal, and continue to deteriorate.

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• We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

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  Tags in Happen, Give, Citizens

• We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box.

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  Topics in Influence

  Tags in Office, Action

• We don’t windsurf in Harlem.

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• Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.

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  Topics in Service

  Tags in Found, Today

• Thousands of people may have been killed by hurricane Katrina and many more could die in its aftermath because of the President’s refusal to heed the calls of governors for help in repairing the infrastructure in their states.

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  Tags in Help, Die

• There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack.

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  Tags in Involved, Weapon

• The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.

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  Topics in Country, Democracy

  Tags in Integrity, Instrument

• The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

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  Tags in Nation, United

• The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.

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  Topics in America

  Tags in President, War

• The people who couldn’t get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Storm, People

• The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.

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  Topics in Fear, Justice

  Tags in African, Movement

• The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.

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  Tags in Took, Priority

• The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

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  Tags in System, Today, Slavery

• Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.

  Charles B Rangel

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Cannot, Nation

• Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.

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  Topics in Past, Positive

  Tags in Forward

• Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Men

• If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one’s crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.

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  Tags in Believe, Process

• I’m in the kitchen and I’m not walking out.

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  Tags in Walking, Kitchen

• I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

  Charles B Rangel

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Need, Come

Charles B Rangel (25)

Birth:	11th June, 1930
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician

About

Charles Bernard "Charlie" Rangel was born in Harlem in New York City. He is an American politician. He is the U.S. Representative for New York's 13th congressional district. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the second-longest currently serving member of the House of Representatives, serving continuously since 1971. He was the first African-American Chair of the influential House Ways and Means Committee. He graduated from New York University in 1957 and St. John's University School of Law in 1960. He then worked as a private lawyer, Assistant U.S. Attorney, and legal counsel during the early-mid-1960s. He was awarded a Purple Heart for his wounds, the Bronze Star with Valor for his actions in the face of death, and three battle stars.

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