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"For the first time in our history, we're in a position where those who are the wage earners are paying a bigger chunk than they should. It's got to shift back."

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-On the number of black teenagers diagnosed with HIV/AIDS: "This is a multiple-dimension problem. But if we don't begin to take it seriously and address it the way we did back in the '90s when it was primarily a gay men's disease, we will never get the services and the public education that we need."

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Democratic Presidential hopeful former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C. answers questions during the televised Democratic presidential candidates debate at Howard University in Washington Thursday, June 28, 2007.

Quotes from the Democratic debate

Democrats denounce desegregation ruling

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WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential candidates stood united Thursday night against the Supreme Court and its ruling, earlier in the day, to roll back school desegregation laws.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said the court "turned the clock back" on history.

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The Democratic presidential candidates tried to outdo each other instead of attack one another in a Thursday night debate in which they were asked how to solve many of the nations social ills.

All eight railed against a Supreme Court decision putting major new limits on school desegregation plans 53 years after the historic Brown v. Board of Education case that ended state-backed segregation in schools.

There is so much left to be done and for anyone to assert that race is not a problem in America today is to deny the reality in front of our very eyes, said New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a Park Ridge native.

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WASHINGTON -- An historically diverse field of Democratic presidential candidates - a woman, a black, an Hispanic and five whites - denounced an hours-old Supreme Court desegregation ruling Thursday night and said the nation's slow march to racial unity is far from over.

"We have made enormous progress, but the progress we have made is not good enough," said Sen. Barack Obama, the son of a man from Kenya and a woman from Kansas.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the first female candidate with a serious shot at the presidency, challenged those who would suggest otherwise. "There is so much left to be done and for anyone to assert that race is not a problem in America today is to deny the reality in front of our very eyes."

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