And to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
ABERJHANIAnd to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
ABERJHANIThey both, when we study that grand tapestry known as history and modern-day society, tend to stand out in much bolder relief than other figures from Dancing with Madness, Dancing with Genius
ABERJHANISeptember 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.–from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
ABERJHANIIn an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder
ABERJHANIBetween men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.
ABERJHANIEmancipation Proclamation represents both phenomenal political symbolism and a victory of faith in democracy that should not be lost on any American.
ABERJHANIA world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
ABERJHANIThe 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.
ABERJHANIUntil the past ten years, many defined the period primarily by its well-known literary, musical, and artistic elements while overlooking the fact there was any political component to it at all.
ABERJHANIPoetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
ABERJHANIAn outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.
ABERJHANIDr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence
ABERJHANIThe more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.
ABERJHANIGroping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.
ABERJHANIDare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.
ABERJHANIAt some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true,
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