George McGovern
George McGovern
George Stanley McGovernwas an American historian, author, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth19 July 1922
CityAvon, SD
CountryUnited States of America
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that you only have a realistic hope of ending poverty if you can somehow curb the destruction and waste and the devastation of war.
biblical empathy neighbor
Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
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I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.
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Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
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It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.
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At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.
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We remember his sturdy idealism and his devotion to public good.