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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.
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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The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.
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To believe is to become what you believe.
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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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We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.
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Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations.
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A democratic state is not proven by the welfare of the strong but by the welfare of the weak.
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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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I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.
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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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It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.
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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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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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What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?
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In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.
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... the histories of Blacks and Jews in bondage and out of bondage, have been blood histories pursued through our kindred searchings for self-determination. Let this blood be a stain of honor that we share. Let us not now become enemies to ourselves and to each other.
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... if your heart and your honest body can be controlled by the state, or controlled by community taboo, are you not then, and in that case, no more than a slave ruled by outside force? What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart, and that attempts to dictate the public career of an honest human body?
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As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth - whatever the truth may be - that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life.
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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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But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.
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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
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