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How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit?

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In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
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Beneath Entire Eye Flower Garden Knowledge Moonlit Rich Terrified
And other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.
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Act Construction Existence Facet Human Mirror Promise Word
Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one’s love to it without compromise or dilution.
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Creative Discipline Love Spiritual Vision Writing
Delivering well-crafted speeches, assembling unified coalitions, passing historic legislation, signing well-aimed executive orders, and cultivating a poised but accessible demeanor.
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Assembling Coalition Delivering History Legislation Passing Speechless
A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
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Dawn Garden Light Midnight Poet Sometime Verb
The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope – that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.
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Act America Civil Hope Learn Passage Past Right Rule
Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
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Guilty Himself Most Seem Trayvon Martin
As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count.
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Change Demonstrated Humanity May Quickly Slowly
There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.
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Intention Philosophical Seductive
Such are these places where lovers of bliss behold the angel of peace
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Angel Behold Bliss Lover Peace Place
Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.
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Attitude Bodies Face Past Soul Time Wear
Nation-building is never a ‘done deal’ confined to history already established.
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Building Established History Humanity Justice Nation Patriotic
In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is one citizen’s soul-searing plea with his countrymen––
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Citizen Country Dream King Martin Luther King Military Plea Searing Soul
To heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries
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Aggravate Heal Injury Nation Opposed Wound
A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
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Art Bearable Bird Enjoyable Flower Poetry World
The more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.
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Continue History Inglorious Likely Long Man Record

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