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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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The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
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Another Group Human Join One Skepticism Sympathy Unlearn
What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices-more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.
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Just because you came here in 1880, 1950, whenever, you became an American. You get to celebrate July 4th like every other American.
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I think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House.
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You don’t just get the good part. You get the bad part, too. You get all of it.
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All Bad Get Good Part Person Too
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal.
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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
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Live Myth Seriously Taken World
My mom used to tell me, I can’t use this phrase on the radio – but basically don’t be one of those dudes hanging on the corner.
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Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.
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When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth.
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This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old. And it may be one of the most durable aspects of the relationship between black people and their country really in our history.
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What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all in any moment. And it is right that you see it through–that you are amazed, then curious, then belligerent, then heartbroken, then numb. You have the right to all of it.
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It was a week after Donald Trump had won. And initially he was still optimistic. He felt that things would be OK ultimately. And I have to tell you, this is the area where, you know, I see, you know, some degree of contradiction.
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[Donald Trump] went on to, you know, otherize Muslims, otherize Latinos, otherize women, that he built out from that. And it can be true that a unique, you know, individual like Barack Obama can succeed in spite of that and still be the case that that force is quite, quite strong.
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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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Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that’s a statement.
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