"When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia—which was inappropriate, certainly that…to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people."
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Remarks at House Appropriations subcommittee to Rep. John Culberson, who was questioning him about voter intimidation by the Black Panthers.
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Eric Holder
Eric Himpton Holder, Jr. (born January 21, 1951) was the 82nd Attorney General of the United States and the first African-American to hold the position. He served under President Barack Obama.
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