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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It can be a challenge, but my legacy, at least for the people who came before me, is you don't run from challenges because that's more comfortable and convenient.
- Nov 07, 2020
Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most parents have long understood that kids don't have the judgment, the maturity, the impulse control and insight necessary to make complicated lifelong decisions.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great evil of American slavery was involuntary servitude or forced labor. I really believe that the true evil of American slavery was the narrative of racial difference that we created to justify it.
- Discrimination
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- Nov 07, 2020
It saddens me that African Americans - when they express their pain, when they protest about police violence, when they question inequality, when they raise issues of bondage and discrimination - African Americans are seen as not patriotic.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't identify a race of people in this country who are more committed to the health of this country, who believe more in the Constitution, who believe more in equality and liberation and fairness to everyone else than black people.
- Healthy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all burdened by our history of racial inequality. It's created a kind of smog that we all breathe in, and it has prevented us from being healthy.
- Evolved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Slavery didn't end in 1865; it just evolved.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we had done the work that we should have done in the 20th century to combat our history of racial inequality, no one could win national office after demonizing people because they're Mexican or Muslim. We would be in a place where we would find that unacceptable.
- Defenders
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is unevolved to want to celebrate the architects and defenders of slavery.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that pains me is we have so tragically underestimated the trauma, the hardship we create in this country when we treat people unfairly, when we incarcerate them unfairly, when we condemn them unfairly.
- Legacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've done a very poor job at really reflecting on our legacy of racial inequality... You see it in the South, but it's everywhere.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't segregate and humiliate people decade after decade without creating long-lasting injuries.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not persuaded that the opposite of poverty is wealth - I've come to believe... that the opposite of poverty is justice.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you read the 13th Amendment, it doesn't talk about narratives of racial difference. It doesn't talk about ideologies of white supremacy. It only talks about involuntary servitude and forced labor.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to Harvard Law School, my first year, I didn't want people to know I started my education in a colored school. I didn't want them to know I was the great-grandson of enslaved people. I thought it might diminish me.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a house that was the traditional African-American home that was dominated by a matriarch, and that matriarch was my grandmother. She was tough. She was strong. She was powerful.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the country in the rural South, and I have a brother a year older than me and a sister a year younger.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know this might be broadcast broadly. But I'm 52 years old, and I'm going to admit to you that I've never had a drop of alcohol.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we create the right kind of identity, we can say things to the world around us that they don't actually believe makes sense. We can get them to do things that they don't think they can do.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a segregated community: I couldn't go to the public schools, beaches, certain parts of town.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, there were ways to have made a lot more money and to have had more leisure. But I wouldn't choose that. I feel rich in ways that are unique and that I would never trade for tens of millions of dollars in the bank.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think when you see that the status quo creates pain and anguish and suffering, what I am most afraid of is that things will stay the same.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't understand what happened to Michael Brown in Ferguson, you can't understand what happened to Eric Garner in New York City, without understanding this narrative of racial difference that was created during the slave years.
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's my mission: I really want to get in the heads and hearts of kids and persuade them that they can believe things they haven't seen, they can do things that maybe others haven't done before them, that they are more than their worst acts.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020