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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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9 |
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AUTHOR:
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John Newton Mitchell (1913–88) |
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QUOTATION:
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You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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JOHN N. MITCHELL, U.S. attorney general, remarks (overheard by reporters) in July 1969 after meeting with a group of black civil rights workers, who protested the Administration’s action on the Voting Rights Act of 1965.—The Washington Post, “Watch What We Do,” editorial, July 7, 1969, p. A22. |
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SUBJECTS:
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Action |
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