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HOFFA, MCCAIN AND KING URGE FOR PRESIDENTIAL PARDON FOR JACK JOHNSON
Congressman Peter King (R-NY) speaks at a press conference calling on President Bush to grant a pardon to Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion of the world at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC on April 6, 2005. Jack Johnson was arrested for transporting a white woman across state lines in 1913. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)

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Not that I'm a great liberal but heavyweight champions used to be the greatest athletes and Jack Johnson was a champion, the first African-American champion
Pardon for boxer Jack Johnson sought
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To single out Muslim Americans as the source of homegrown terrorism and not examine all forms of violence motivated by extremist belief -- that, my friends, is an injustice
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It's more important to expose (alleged radicalization) for what it is and bring it out in the open, as you do in a democracy
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There is no equivalency of threat between al-Qaida and neo-Nazis, environmental extremists or other isolated madmen. Only al-Qaida and its Islamist affiliates are part of an international threat to our nation
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