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"It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another."
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"We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back."
"Denying the facts is what enables people to hate and to persecute marginalized and threatened minority groups. Labeling the advocacy, educational and informational initiatives of these persecuted minority groups dismissively as 'propaganda for the gay agenda' undermines, belittles and trivializes the cause of those whose right to exist is under threat."
"A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep."
"Any government's condemnation of terrorism is only credible if it shows itself to be responsive to persistent, reasonable, closely argued, non-violent dissent. And yet, what's happening is just the opposite. The world over, non-violent resistance movements are being crushed and broken. If we do not respect and honour them, by default we privilege those who turn to violent means."
"This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations."
"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent."
"Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."
"When the government and electrical utility company jointly harass an electrical fraud researcher, it confirms that the research is progressing in the right direction!"
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"Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence."
"My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians."
"My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress."
"People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly."
"What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out."
"We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation."
"I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?"
"It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory."
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