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A democratic state is not proven by the welfare of the strong but by the welfare of the weak.
June Jordan
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June Jordan
Age: 65 †
Born: 1936
Born: July 9
Died: 2002
Died: June 14
Essayist
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
Novelist
Poet
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Harlem
New York
June Millicent Jordan
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That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.
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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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If we even tolerate any oppression of gay and lesbian Americans, if we join those who would intrude upon the choices of our hearts, then who among us shall be free?
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To begin is no more agony than opening your hand.
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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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Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement of health care, is there anything to boast about?
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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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Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute middle of the homemade cherry pie.
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Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations.
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In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.
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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify.
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The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet
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It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.
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There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.
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Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.
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Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?
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One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!
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Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
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The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think
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We are the ones we've been waiting for.
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