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"I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement."
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"But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progressives and people who are concerned about Haiti and have been concerned about Haiti, we have to begin to build some sort of consensus, a movement around the Haiti that the Haitians envision."
People
"If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica."
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"But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe."
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"Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am."
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"We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions."
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"In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play."
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"I never thought about being an actor."
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"I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me."
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"I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can."
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"I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family."
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"If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus."
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"When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement."
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"I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961."
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"Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson."
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"The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved."
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"Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today."
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"There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it."
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"There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites."
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"I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement."
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"I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights."
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