I think when you see that the status quo creates pain and anguish and suffering, what I am most afraid of is that things will stay the same.
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Most parents have long understood that kids don't have the judgment, the maturity, the impulse control and insight necessary to make complicated lifelong decisions.
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When I went to Harvard Law School, my first year, I didn't want people to know I started my education in a colored school. I didn't want them to know I was the great-grandson of enslaved people. I thought it might diminish me.
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When we create the right kind of identity, we can say things to the world around us that they don't actually believe makes sense. We can get them to do things that they don't think they can do.
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Slavery didn't end in 1865; it just evolved.
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It is unevolved to want to celebrate the architects and defenders of slavery.
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I'm not persuaded that the opposite of poverty is wealth - I've come to believe... that the opposite of poverty is justice.
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Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.
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If we had done the work that we should have done in the 20th century to combat our history of racial inequality, no one could win national office after demonizing people because they're Mexican or Muslim. We would be in a place where we would find that unacceptable.