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{{cquote|I can only say that segregation is wrong today, it was wrong yesterday,” he said. “Segregation was never right. But it is one of the most lamentable frailties of mankind that when one’s wrong is most grievous, his self-justification is most passionate, perhaps in the pitiful hope that the fervor of his self-defense will somehow prove him right. But this doesn’t make it so. And he doesn’t fool himself.}}
 
{{cquote|I can only say that segregation is wrong today, it was wrong yesterday,” he said. “Segregation was never right. But it is one of the most lamentable frailties of mankind that when one’s wrong is most grievous, his self-justification is most passionate, perhaps in the pitiful hope that the fervor of his self-defense will somehow prove him right. But this doesn’t make it so. And he doesn’t fool himself.}}
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He resigned from the House of August 29, 1972 to become a justice on the Virginia Supreme Court.
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He resigned from the House of August 29, 1972 to become a justice on the Virginia Supreme Court. Poff had missed 3% of all roll call votes during his tenure in Congress.<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/richard_poff/408794 Rep. Richard Poff]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved April 28, 2021.</ref>
    
==Supreme Court nomination==
 
==Supreme Court nomination==
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