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How do we expect change to occur if we are not willing to put on the whole armor of God and fight injustice wherever it raises its ugly head?

Bernice King

Occasionally, in the afternoons, I catch a movie, watch football, go to Sunday brunch, or visit with family and friends.
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Family Food Friendship Movie Myself Occasion
Environmental injustice is a tangible, intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political structures based on the race, ethnicity, and class of those being impacted.
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Environment Health Impact Injustice Minimal Moral Race Standard
My first introduction to South Africa’s struggle for freedom came when I was just 17. I had volunteered to speak in my mother’s stead at a United Nations forum on South Africa because she was unable to attend on that occasion.
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Attend Freedom Introduction Myself Occasion Struggle Volunteer
In addition to needed gun control reforms, America urgently needs a stronger protest movement dedicated to reducing the glorification of violence in our culture – in music, film, television, video games, and even the Internet.
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Addition Control Game Movement Protest Violence
My father really set the tone for us to be a more moral nation, to take a moral high ground in everything that we do.
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Father Ground Moral Myself Nation
In the end, I still have the same hope as my father – that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the last word.
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Conditional End Father Hope Myself Word
I don’t know if you realize this, but anger is anger. It has no mind. It has no rationality. It’s mad, and it just wants to destroy.
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Angry Madness Mindset Ration Realization Yourself
I know that the absence of my father in my life had its cost.
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Absence Cost Father Life Myself
My mother made countless sacrifices so that her children – and all children – could grow up in a better nation and world.
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Better Count Growth Mom Nation Sacrifice World
When I think about some of the policies that we make in this country, the policies are so self-driven.
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Country Drive Myself Policies Thinking
We are carrying collectively a lot of trauma, especially those of us in the African-American community. And if we’re not careful, it’ll overtake us, and we’ll self-destruct.
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Carry Collection Community Destruction Ourselves Trauma
In 1985, I was arrested, along with my mother and brother, Martin III, in a protest against apartheid at the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C.
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Arrest Mom Myself Politics Protest
Before she was a King, my mother was a peace advocate, a courageous leader, and an accomplished artist.
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Accomplishment Artist Courage Leadership Mom Peace
Trump’s election could be a blessing in disguise. This is the opportunity for America to correct itself.
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Blessing Correction Disguise Election Myself Opportunity
All of us have to be committed to a life beyond our own aspirations.
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Aspiration Beyond Commitment Life Ourselves
In 1985, I joined my mother in a protest against apartheid in which we were arrested at the South African embassy in Washington, D.C. And she was at President-elect Mandela’s side in Johannesburg when he claimed victory in South Africa’s first free elections.
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Arrest Election Freedom Join Mom Myself Politics Protest Victory

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