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We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Kindness Radical Sweetness
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Hey People Thinking
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Certain Kind Stuff
There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.
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Differences Fundamentals Organization
I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.
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Idea Men Wise
Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Color Looks President
I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.
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Belief Difference Strong
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
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Ghetto Police Racism
Martin Luther King’s legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.
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Brick Kings Legacy Mortar
It’s true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.
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Littles Magazine Reading
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Constant Possibility Probability
We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.
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Inspirational Loyalty Relationship
Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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Culture Hip Hop Rap
Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)
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Democracy Majority Rights
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Ordinary People Wake
Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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Jazz Music Need

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