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“I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government.”
― Civil Disobedience
― Civil Disobedience
“Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper in Ruleville, Mississippi, became legendary as organizer and speaker. She sang hymns; she walked picket lines with her familiar limp (as a child she contracted polio). She roused people to excitement at mass meetings: "I'm sick an' tired o' bein' sick an' tired!”
― A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
― A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
“Principles don't have borders.”
― Wrong to Need You
― Wrong to Need You
“When did it become okay to be more offended by what someone with no power says than by what someone with power does?”
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“It's an insidious thing," Wanda said. "It never happens overnight. This kind of thing crept into our community a long time ago. It latched on. It fed on prejudice. Selfishness. Peoples inability to see life through someone else's eyes. And it grew, bigger and bigger, until we got to a point where some people don't even question why a cop should be allowed to shoot first and ask questions later.”
― Anger Is a Gift
― Anger Is a Gift
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