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"There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation."
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"I'd seen entire constellations of possibility I'd never previously been aware of, so blinded had I been by the bright, glaring stars of expectation. Freedom, I was beginning to think, had less to do with where you were, and was more about who you were trying to be."
"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties."
"If one has never known freedom, it is easy to be blind to the gridirons composing one's cell."
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
"To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today."
"Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price."
"The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be."
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"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."
"Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music."
"It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another."
"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."
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