| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 9 |
| AUTHOR: | John Newton Mitchell (1913–88) |
| QUOTATION: | You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | JOHN N. MITCHELL, U.S. attorney general, remarks (overheard by reporters) in July 1969 after meeting with a group of black civil rights workers, who protested the Administration’s action on the Voting Rights Act of 1965.—The Washington Post, “Watch What We Do,” editorial, July 7, 1969, p. A22. |
| SUBJECTS: | Action |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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