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My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair
June Jordan
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June Jordan
Age: 65 †
Born: 1936
Born: July 9
Died: 2002
Died: June 14
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June Millicent Jordan
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What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?
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To believe is to become what you believe.
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The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous economic and social distress.
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But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.
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To begin is no more agony than opening your hand.
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We are the ones we've been waiting for.
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In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt), and exemplary moral courage none of these is normal.
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I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.
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