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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 1892
AUTHOR: Hubert Horatio Humphrey (1911–78)
QUOTATION: I’d hate to be in those [slum] conditions and I’ll tell you if I were in those conditions, you’d have more trouble than you have already because I’ve got enough spark left in me to lead a mighty good revolt.
ATTRIBUTION: Vice President HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, speech to the National Association of Counties in New Orleans, Louisiana, July 18, 1966, as reported by The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, July 19, 1966, p. 18.
SUBJECTS: Violence