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"What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another woman's face? What woman's terms of oppression have become precious and necessary to her as a ticket into the fold of the righteous, away from the cold winds of self-scrutiny?"
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"When you a get a job you are not qualified for, it will be evil to you and to your community."
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"No nation's flag is great or glorious if it flies over the weak and downtrodden, even if they raise and protect it out of misguided allegiance."
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"Each and every one of us was created to carry out justice, judgment, truth and equity on the earth. It could be in different spheres of life, in various professions or in diverse gifting."
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"Life is a game where fair players are winners! But as for the "injury causers", "red-card" sees their end off!"
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"Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice."
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"The law hath not been dead though it hath slept."
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"Time shall unfold what pleated cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides."
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"The corrupt system made the ordinary citizen absolutely powerless and without rights."
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"Men of honor, men of God in a healthy society, stand in defense of justice."
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"I am against justice - whenever it is carried out by a mob."
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"The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions."
Trust
"Raising Black children - female and male - in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive."
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"Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever."
Love
"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own."
Freedom
"Black men are not so passive that they must have Black women speak for them. Even my fourteen-year-old son knows that. Black men themselves must examine and articulate their own desires and positions and stand by the conclusions thereof. No point is served by a Black male professional who merely whines at the absence of his viewpoint in Black women's work. Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves."
Empowerment
"When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."
Strength
"When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid."
Strength
"In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us."
Diversity
"Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism."
Quality
"For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us."
Courage
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