The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.
TA-NEHISI COATESWhat I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.
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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.
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The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple.
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I want to be really, really clear about this. It doesn’t mean that everyone or even the majority of people who voted for Donald Trump are racist or white supremacists or anything like that. But what it means is that it’s not a mistake that Trump began his campaign with birthersism .
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When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth.
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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America.
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It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited.
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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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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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If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.
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I think the sad fact is, there’s a long history in this country at looking at African-American as subhuman.
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Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains-whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains.
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Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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I think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House.
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Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system.
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