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True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar — it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization - black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whi — Robert F. Kennedy
You know, I gave you the benefit of the doubt earlier when I first encountered you, the raging beast—oh I mean bitch. Bu — Chelsea Ballinger, Sinners & Saints
I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calcu — Theodore Parker, The present aspect of slavery in America and the immediate duty of the North: a speech delivered in the hall of the State house, before the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Convention, on Friday night, January 29, 1858
Right isn't always legal. — J.S.B. Morse, Gods of Ruin: A Political Thriller
I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even the enemy — Jessica Dovey
Tolstoy was a Caucasian, Gandhi was an Asian, and Martin Luther King Jr. was a Negro, yet all of their hearts were inspi — Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
The idea of freedom is complex and it is all-encompassing. It’s the idea that the economy must remain free of government — Elbert Guillory
God has wrought many things out of oppression. He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create and from this ca — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It — Martin Luther King Jr.
I am still hoping to see an America that would gradually move beyond race, only in times when old ideas would no longer — Henry Johnson Jr
Liberia gave life, America gives me a DREAM. — Henry Johnson Jr
We knew no one man had killed the prophet. Rather, the combined weight of racism and an absence of moral courage had cru — Marita Golden, Migrations of the Heart
We can’t answer King’s assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him. — Sammy Davis Jr.
Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murde — Martin Luther King Jr.
Remember how I told you that a person’s conduct is the first hint we have of a person’s character. Sometimes that’s all — Glen Shuld, The Color of Character
The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were i — Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait
His headstone saidFREE AT LAST, FREE AT LASTBut death is a slave's freedomWe seek the freedom of free menAnd the constru — Nikki Giovanni
It may sound strange, but I get the inspiration for most of my Dreams while I'm sleeping. — Mark W. Boyer
There's no Black, White, Asian, or Latinos. The only "RACE" is the "HUMAN-RACE". — Henry Johnson Jr