The spectacle of the shooting suggest an event out of time, as if the killing of black people with white-supremacist justification interrupts anything other than regular television programming. But Dylan Storm Roof did not create himself from nothing. He as grown up with the rhetoric and orientation of racism.
I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
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Unknown
This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America
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Paul Robeson
And here's to the blues, the real blues– where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.
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David Mutti Clark
Alone, we are great, but together, we are better.
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Izey Victoria Odiase
We are going to win our freedom because both the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of the Almighty God are embodied in our echoing demands. So however difficult it is during this period, however difficult it is to continue to live...
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Anonymous
More Quotes By Jesmyn Ward
Did every step feel like the running leap a bird takes before flight?
If the scrapes were on the front of our knees, she would put our dirty feet in the middle of her chest to clean the wounds, and we could feel her heart beating, strong as the thud of the ground when we walked, through our...
There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in private.
Kids will take shots of white strong liquor, they will smoke weed wrapped in thick blunts, they will even take Ecstasy or prescription pain pills, but they will not casually pull out an eight-ball of coke and push it across the table at a house...
Remember a Florida judge instructing a jury to focus only on the moment when George Zimmerman and Trayvon Marton interacted, thus transforming a seventeen-year-old, unarmed kid into a big, scary black guy, while the grown man who stalked him through the neighborhood with a loaded...
