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Growing up, I was a little hippie kid. I went to some good concerts... Amnesty International with Bob Dylan and Tracy Chapman... The best concert I ever went to was this one at the Cow Palace my freshman year in college on New Year's Eve. It was Pearl Jam opening for Nirvana opening for Red Hot Chili Peppers. Summer Sanders

Good, Red, Best, College, Growing Up

There are 12 million illegal immigrants in this country - drawing welfare benefits, sending their children to public schools, and pushing down wages for American workers - but the problem extends well beyond amnesty and open borders. Sam Graves

Children, Problem, American, Down, Open

I have published a proclamation: 'Forgive us our transgressions as we forgive those who transgress against us.' I have ordered all citizens to return to their parishes to enjoy the benefits of this general amnesty. Toussaint Louverture

Enjoy, Forgive, Against, Us, Return, Who

What I think you are going to see is with DACA being gone, it gets rid of the magnet of drawing people over here, thinking they are going to come in and get amnesty. Ted Yoho

People, Thinking, Think, You, Drawing

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides. Victor Hugo

Good, Quality, Mercy, Both Sides, Sides

Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing hearts. Even the New Testament climaxes with an act of unspeakable torture. Might as well just read to our kids from the Amnesty Annual Report and be done with it. Geraldine Brooks

Children, Wolves, Ice, Feet, Done, New

In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after-school programs and other social programs to help keep kids off the streets. Amnesty International speaks to that in some way, by keeping these issues in the forefront. Lupe Fiasco

Family, Failure, School, Strong, Help

Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change. Erin Gruwell

Change, Power, Girl, Writing, Powerful

Every time anybody in Washington talks about legal status, amnesty, anything of that nature, it becomes a magnet that lures people in quickly into the United States. Louie Gohmert

Nature, Time, People, Legal, Washington

I said it's impossible to have an amnesty without ID cards and a clean database, because you firstly don't have any incentives for people to actually come up front and register, and make themselves available, and secondly you have no means of tracking them. David Blunkett

People, Impossible, Cards, You, Said, Up

We should have sent the apartheid monsters to jail, not let them off with an amnesty. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

Apartheid, Jail, Monsters, Off, Should

Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. Ambrose Bierce

Expensive, Too, Whom, Would, Magnanimity

Since the '86 amnesty, the number of illegal immigrants has quadrupled. That should teach Congress a very important lesson: Amnesty 'bends' the rule of law. And bending the rule of law to reach a 'comprehensive' deal winds up provoking wholesale breaking of the law. Edwin Meese

Law, Reach, Immigrants, Important, Teach

Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice. Peter Benenson

Freedom, Today, Justice, Support, Help

I think we should be pushing for amnesty and a path to citizenship for every undocumented person residing in the United States who has not committed a violent crime, with a special emphasis on keeping families together. Conor Oberst

Path, Together, Think, Special, Person

Transparency, accountability and sustainability have become the slogans of the market leaders. Companies carry out environmental and social audits to court the consumer, and even the bluest chips woo organisations such as Greenpeace and Amnesty. Noreena Hertz

Environmental, Accountability, Become

How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - that's not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible. Sheldon Whitehouse

History, Hope, God, Humility, Bible, Up

These immigrants have come to our country and blatantly disregarded our laws. We cannot, we should not, reward that. No amnesty. No ability to vote. Get those borders secure, and then deal with that situation. Karen Handel

Vote, Situation, Reward, Country, Laws

After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared. Ted Cruz

Better, Media, You, Political, Look, Way

I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.' Ted Cruz

Uniform, House, Said, Nothing, Will, Up

If you support amnesty, you should vote for the Democrats. Ted Cruz

Support, You, Vote, Democrats, Should

I have never supported amnesty, and I led the fight against Chuck Schumer's gang of eight amnesty legislation in the Senate. Ted Cruz

Fight, Never, Against, Gang, Legislation

There was reference made to our leaders being stupid. It's not a question of stupidity. It's that they don't want to enforce the immigration laws. That there are far too many in the Washington cartel that support amnesty. Ted Cruz

Support, Stupid, Stupidity, Immigration

When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.' Ted Cruz

Fight, People, Me, Texas, You, Will

If you want a president to stop amnesty, to secure the borders and keep us safe, then support a candidate who has led the fight to stop amnesty to secure the borders and to keep us safe. Ted Cruz

Support, Fight, You, Want, President

Just because Nelson has been released doesn't mean the government has done us any favors. We have nothing to be grateful for. The government destroyed our country, destroyed our people. If anybody needs amnesty, it is the government. Hugh Masekela

Grateful, People, Government, Country

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