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Senator Everett Dirksen Quotes
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Famous Senator Everett Dirksen Quotations
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Everett McKinley Dirksen (January 4, 1896 – September 7, 1969) was an American politician of the Republican Party. He represented Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives (1933–1949) and U.S. Senate (1951–1969). As Senate Minority Leader for over a decade, he played a highly visible and key role in the politics of the 1960s, including helping to write and pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Open Housing Act of 1968, both landmarks of civil rights legislation. He was also one of the Senate's strongest supporters of the Vietnam War.
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"Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incomptetents in asylums, who can't are those in cemeteries."
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