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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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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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War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.
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Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire
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And to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
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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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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams.
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The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
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In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.
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We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war
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Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator.
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Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown.
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The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.
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Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
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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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The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
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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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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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When the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness
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As living examples of the same. Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social disease.
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Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
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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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Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.
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You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.
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Careful studies of cases dealing with supposed ‘mental disorder’ have at times revealed that many thought to be insane or warped in some fashion were actually simply highly sensitive individuals.
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