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Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.

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Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

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As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.

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Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action.

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I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.

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I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn't drop out and run away.

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There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.

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You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.

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The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.

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The First Amendment means everything to me.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: January 14th, 1940

Died: August 15th, 2015

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