[E]mpathy – not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance – is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.
TA-NEHISI COATESIf George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.
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Just because you came here in 1880, 1950, whenever, you became an American. You get to celebrate July 4th like every other American.
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These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann’s to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.
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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted himself.
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What it is is that Barack Obama was raised by a white mother and two white grandparents who, A, told him he was black and that there was nothing wrong with being black.
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Often ironic and self-deprecating – are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.
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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.
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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
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Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal.
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Racism is, among other things.
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I mean, the president, you know, at one point when he was campaigning said I believe that Donald Trump was not qualified to run a 7-Eleven.
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Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words.
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The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.
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Giving opportunities to other people, it’s only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.
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