What more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word?
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More Aberjhani Quotes
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First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
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When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance,
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First gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.
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Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man’s flesh and blood life, especially when there is any amount of “doubt” at all regarding his guilt or innocence.
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The best of humanity’s recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
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Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
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Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.
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When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.
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And to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.
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Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks.
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To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something called “destiny” to maintain grief and horror in the world?
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Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
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By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders capable of enriching the lives of not just her own people, but of all people.
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