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Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.

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I'm too mature to be angry.

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When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.

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So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

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For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.

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Keep hope alive!

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: October 8th, 1941

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