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"The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor."
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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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"From my keen observation, it is a very sad fact that the Philippines' current administration's drug war crisis has fully pressed the pedal of acceleration to more division, hatred, cycles of violence (copycat killings, summary killings, extra judicial killings, collateral victims of drug war), toxic revenge, and perpetual impunity."
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"Put the case that he lived in an atmosphere of evil, and that all he saw of children was their being generated in great numbers for certain destruction. Put the case that he often saw children solemnly tried at a criminal bar, where they were held up to be seen; put the case that he habitually knew of their being imprisoned, whipped, transported, neglected, cast out, qualified in all ways for the hangman, and growing up to be hanged. Put the case that pretty nigh all the children he saw in his daily business life he had reason to look upon as so much spawn, to develop into the fish that were to come to his net,""to be prosecuted, defended, forsworn, made orphans, bedevilled somehow."
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"Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible."
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"Marie felt a sudden urge to smash the glass, break down the door, pull down the building. She wanted to tear apart the world. Mather would have never treated a white student that badly, nor would he have shut the door in the face of a man. At that moment, she wanted Dr. Mather to disappear. She wanted every white man to disappear. She wanted to burn them all down to ash and feast on their smoke. Hateful, powerful thoughts. She wondered what those hateful, powerful thoughts could create."
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"Amnesty International Survey found that 25 percent of people believe a woman is to blame for being raped if she dresses "provocatively."
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"Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children's lives to settle its differences."
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"There is no vicious inhumanity than keeping children hungry."
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"How must it have felt, Pikes, the night they seized your films, like entrails yanked from the camera, out of your guts, clutching them in coils and wads to stuff them up a stove to burn away! Did it feel as bad as having some fifty thousand books annihilated with no recompense? Yes. Yes. Stendahl felt his hands grow cold with the senseless anger."
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"Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something."
Fight
"I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it."
Listening
"What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out."
Imagination
"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."
Progress
"When I first came to New York everybody on the scene would treat me like I could play, but I couldn't."
First
"We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation."
Democracy
"I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy."
Idea
"Thank the good Lord for a job."
Job
"The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard."
Time
"There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing."
Battle
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