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We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.

Bernice King

Often, I am asked, ‘What was your father like?’ or, ‘What would he think?’ These are very difficult questions to answer, as I was so very young when I lost my father.
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Difficult Father Myself Question Young
Love is not a weak, spineless emotion; it is a powerful moral force on the side of justice.
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Emotion Force Justice Love Moral Powerful Weakness
All of us have to be committed to a life beyond our own aspirations.
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Aspiration Beyond Commitment Life Ourselves
I spend a lot of time meditating, which is something that I don’t think most people know about me.
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Meditation Myself People Time
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
Every time I go to these racial forums, it is people who are alike, or it is progressives and liberals. So I said, ‘At some point, we’ve got to bring the progressives and the liberals and the conservatives together.’
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Conservatism Forum Liberal Myself People Race Time Togetherness
The time has long since come for truth, transparency, and talks in every sector of society, including media, advertisement and entertainment. We can challenge each other, gain understanding, and create a more just, humane, and peaceful world.
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Entertainment Human Peace Time Transparent Truth World
I wrestled with anger from the age of sixteen. It’s still one of my nemeses. I have to remember that the word of God says, ‘Be slow to anger.’
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Age Angry God Myself Remember Slow
People have labeled me homophobic. If I was homophobic, I wouldn’t have friends who are gay and lesbian, so that can’t be true.
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Friendship Label Myself People True
Somehow, we have to realize that what we watch and what we listen to not only often reflects our most violent tendencies but cultivates more violence.
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Listening Ourselves Realization Reflection Violent Watch
The private sector enjoys tremendous freedom in the U.S, as it should. With freedom, however, comes responsibilities.
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Enjoyment Freedom Privacy Responsibility
When my father died, the money he left us would have dried up within a year were it not for my mother. We might very well have ended up on welfare.
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Death End Father Mom Money Ourselves
Something big is going on. I’m talking about a society that refuses to allow injustice just to persist without making our voices heard and without organizing to bring about effective change through our voting system.
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Big Change Ourselves Persistence Refusal Society System Vote
If I had to do it all over again, would I want my dad here? I would say no. Our world is in a better place because our father gave his life.
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Better Father Himself Improvement Life Place World
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
What I’m trying to do is fulfill what my father said, which is, ‘We have to find a way to live together as brothers and sisters, or together we’re going to perish as fools.’
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Father Fools Fulfill Live Togetherness

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