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The Really Important Victory Of The Civil Rights Movement Was That It Made Racism Unpopular, Whereas A Generation Ago At The Turn Of The Last Century, You Had To Embrace Racism To Get Elected To Anything.

The Islamic Community Today Is Faced With A New Version Of An Old Struggle. My Late Mother Used To Say It Doesn't Matter Whether You Came To This Country On The Mayflower Or On A Slave Ship, Through Ellis Island Or The Rio Grande. We're All In The Same Boat Now.

There Are No Permanent Friends Or Permanent Enemies, Just Permanent Interests.

Defining Myself, As Opposed To Being Defined By Others, Is One Of The Most Difficult Challenges I Face.

All I Really Want To Be Is Boring. When People Talk About Me, I'd Like Them To Say, Carol's Basically A Short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's Kind Of Like Al Gore In A Skirt.