Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government. (Mark Sanford)

Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government.

Mark Sanford

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