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" We are not confident any of the methods used today can guarantee legal voters will not be wrongfully denied the right to vote ", Lee told a group of Atlanta-area black lawmakers in March 2001.
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As Madison commented to Jefferson in 1789, `` We are in a wilderness without a single footstep to guide us.
We get some clue from a few remembrances of childhood and from the circumstance that we are probably not much more afraid of people now than man ever was.
We are worried about what people may do with them -- that some crazy fool may `` push the button ''.
We have staved off a war and, since our behavior has involved all these elements, we can only keep adding to our ritual without daring to abandon any part of it, since we have not the slightest notion which parts are effective.
We are forced, in our behavior towards others, to adopt empirically successful patterns in toto because we have such a minimal understanding of their essential elements.
We are already committed to establishing man's supremacy over nature and everywhere on earth, not merely in the limited social-political-economical context we are fond of today.
We are tempted to blame others for our problems rather than look them straight in the face and realize they are of our own making and possible of solution only by ourselves with the help of desperately needed, enlightened, competent leaders.
We are reminded, however, that freedom of thought and discussion, the unfettered exchange of ideas, is basic under our form of government.
We are also struck by the fact that this story of a boy's love for his mother does not offend, while the incestuous love of the man, Paul Morel, sometimes repels.
We have so completely entered the child's fantasy that his illness and his death are the plausible and the necessary conclusion.
We feel uncomfortable at being bossed by a corporation or a union or a television set, but until we have some knowledge about these phenomena and what they are doing to us, we can hardly learn to control them.
`` We were requested by the Secretary General, as I understand it, to discuss with you such matters as appear to us to be relevant, and we are not of course either a formal group or a committee in the sense of being guided by any rules or regulations of the Secretariat.
We are learning how to do these things in some of the vast organized structures of modern society ; ;
We are all, though many of us are snobbish enough to wish to deny it, in far closer sympathy with the art of the music-hall and picture-palace than with Chaucer and Cimabue, or even Shakespeare and Titian.
We and confident
We will recall that the still confident liberals of the Truman administration gathered with other Western utopians in San Francisco to set up the legal framework, finally and at last, to rationalize war -- to rationalize want and fear -- out of the world: the United Nations.
In public, Goebbels remained confident of German victory: " We live at the most critical period in the history of the Occident ," he wrote in Das Reich in February 1943.
We Africans will fight, if necessary, and we know that we shall win, as we are confident in the victory of good over evil.
Duncan said of the victory: " We were all confident that something would happen, that we would turn the game to our favor, and it did ", but felt sad that Robinson retired after winning his second championship ring.
The LA police chief had to get up at a press conference and say: ' We have just arrested a suspect for the murder of Ennis Cosby going on information we are very confident about and this is in great part due to help from the National Enquirer.
According to Mountain: " We wanted to deliver the same experience to all players and were confident that we could do this using the standard 4MB of RAM on the console.
We wish him the best in his future endeavors, and we are confident that he will be a positive influence and wonderful mentor to inquisitive minds at the University of California at Davis.
The supporters of the Amitron were confident and stated in 1977, " We don't see a major obstacle in the technology.
Around the time of the 2005 plea bargain, an advisor to Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme that: " We are confident that justice has been done ", and did not indicate that the country would seek Thatcher's extradition.
He concluded the editorial ," We are confident that the Government of India will take the matter up in earnest and will carry out the minor alterations and additions necessary to convert the Calcutta Medical College into a first class school for research and post-graduate study in tropical medicine.
The vision of Gamma Phi Beta is " We will build confident women of character who celebrate sisterhood and make a difference in the world around us.
We have further to recommend for axe-handles an addition which is liable to suspicion as an entire innovation, but which, we are confident, will be found valuable at those critical moments when the axe is required to hold up two or three men.
We are confident in the equipment that we operate, the safety precautions that we utilize, the monitoring systems that we have, and our plant emergency preparedness.
" EPA Assistant Administrator Jim Gulliford replied saying, " We are confident that by conducting such a rigorous analysis and developing highly restrictive provisions governing its use, there will be no risks of concern ," and in October the EPA approved the use of methyl iodide as a soil fumigant in the United States.
* 1979: Conservative Party, led by Margaret Thatcher, " We are not confident that it will be proved, but we would like to see it tried.
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