Carolina Quotes
Today, the nation looks at South Carolina and is looking at us to see if we will rise to be the body, and to be the state that we really say that we are.
Clementa Pinckney Carolinian
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Speech on the floor of the South Carolina Senate after the death of Walter Scott, Columbia, April 2015
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- Speech on the death of Walter Scott, South Carolina Senate
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