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They’re right there waiting for it. A community of people who’ve been denied wealth, denied wealth-building opportunities, are right there. And the banks went right after them.

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I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
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The essence of American racism is disrespect.
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And I think that’s reflected in the fact that, when we have problems that really are problems of employment, that are really problems of mental health, that are really problems of drugs, our answer is the police.
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What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.
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Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?
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These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann’s to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.
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Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.
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[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted himself.
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I don’t know how you bridge that contradiction, but I felt that Barack Obama was sincere. It didn’t feel like a line to me.
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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver.
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Talk about class and hope no one notices.
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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good.
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It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited.
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I think there’s a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus that gives him some understanding of both white America and black America, but that’s not really it.
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I’m asking you as an American to see all of the freedoms that you enjoy and see how they are rooted in things that the country you belong to condoned or actively participated in the past.
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When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.
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