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It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.
Eddie Bernice Johnson / United States Representative
Activity
Black
Vote
Stimulate
Takes
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Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
Eddie Bernice Johnson / United States Representative
Believe
Female
Wells
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When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.
Eddie Bernice Johnson / United States Representative
Following
Losses
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I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.
Eddie Bernice Johnson / United States Representative
Feels
Losing
Continually
Sting
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There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.
Eddie Bernice Johnson / United States Representative
Issues
Perspective
Issue
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I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.
Eddie Bernice Johnson / United States Representative
Needed
Organize
Said
World
Push
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
Eddie Bernice Johnson / United States Representative
Disagree
World People Go
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
Eddie Bernice Johnson / United States Representative
Women
Several
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The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.
Eddie Bernice Johnson / United States Representative
Health
Air
Air Pollution
Effects
Facts
Pollution
Human
Fact
Lives
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
Eddie Bernice Johnson / United States Representative
Accomplish
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Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
Eddie Bernice Johnson / United States Representative
Black And White
Dallas
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Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.
Eddie Bernice Johnson / United States Representative
Initiative
Announced
Month
World Peace
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
Eddie Bernice Johnson / United States Representative
Family Oriented
Obligation
Sick
Towards
Oriented
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We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.
Eddie Bernice Johnson / United States Representative
Looks
Losing
Never Quit
Seriously
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Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
Eddie Bernice Johnson / United States Representative
History
Careers
Children
Country
Female
Generally
Historically
Speaking
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As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.
Eddie Bernice Johnson / United States Representative
America
Election
Lawmakers
Nightmare
People
Presidential
Presidential Election
Assure
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This was the first time a woman in Dallas had won public office of any kind - even women questioned whether or not I was qualified, whether or not I could take it.
Eddie Bernice Johnson / United States Representative
Dallas
First Time
Office
Public Office
Qualified
Time Women Woman
Won
Questioned
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Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.
Eddie Bernice Johnson / United States Representative
Anger
Attributes
Conflict
Curriculum
Differences
Management
Resolution
School
Tolerance
Develop
Phase
Teaches
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Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far.
Eddie Bernice Johnson / United States Representative
Kids
Children
Combat
Military
Cover
Magazine
Mostly
Trained
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I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.
Eddie Bernice Johnson / United States Representative
Accustomed
Convince
Country
Discomfort
Minorities
Older People
People
Voting
History Important People
History Country People
Parts
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During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.
Eddie Bernice Johnson / United States Representative
Running
Men
Community
Community Service
Dallas
Election
Higher
Native
Opponents
Profile
Male
Runner
Service
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
Eddie Bernice Johnson / United States Representative
Different
Discrimination
Gender
Looking Back
Quiet
Race
Slowly
Quietly
Realize
Traces
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Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.
Eddie Bernice Johnson / United States Representative
Activity
Inviting
Other Countries
Volume
Touch
Ambassador
Centers
First Phase
Increasing
Phase
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