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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.

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Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against.
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... we need to interrogate reverence, for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously.
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Justice is possible without equality, I believe, because of compassion and understanding. If I have compassion, then if I have more than you, which is unequal, I will still do the just thing by you.
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I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy.
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It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.
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The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.
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... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of racial solidarity that suppress dissent and critique can lead black folks to support individuals who will not protect their rights.
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Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.
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