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"We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived."
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"Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy."
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"Truth shrilled in prison or cemetary."
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"Oh,' she says, 'the Vat prints nothing but rapes. You know what a rape usually is? It's a woman who changed her mind afterward."
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"The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public."
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"In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States."
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"The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice."
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"It's sad to see the world live in ignorance full of pain only enjoyed luxuriously by the few stupid greedy ones."
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"If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it."
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"The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad."
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"Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important."
People
"We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived."
Injustice
"My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant."
Family
"Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law."
Family
"In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way."
Truth
"To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way."
Love
"I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic."
Travel
"That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes."
Attitude
"One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!"
Thought
"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."
Friendship
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