The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. A revolt from people who were stolen from their land or revolt from people whose land was stolen from, that's what the genesis of the Second Amendment is.

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We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions

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I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.

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Art is about the dynamics of the human experience.

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If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.

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I have the capacity to express what I feel needs to be expressed. And I try to do what I believe in.

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Leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making sure people have a livelihood, making sure people receive a living wage, making sure the environment, the Mother Earth, is embraced and cherished and not destroyed. Making sure people are healthy in what they eat, making sure we hold people and corporations accountable for the damage they do not only to our environment but to our institutions.

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When someone you know passes on, the only thing you can do is keep moving forward.

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Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is tempered by that; you're successful in this way given the fact you are black, and most blacks don't get to that point.

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Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic groups are using the media and decide who can speak, who the good guy is and who the bad guy is.

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Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

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Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

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I want people with epilepsy to know that there are ways in which they can play a role in their own recovery. It's all in how they approach what is happening and how they can use that as a catalyst for their own growth. If there's one thing that I've learned, it's that people are willing to embrace you if you share your story.

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You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.

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We live in a climate of fear, and because of this whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion.

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Mother Earth is in pain and ailing because of global warming.

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The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues that were happening in places like Detroit, where there was a deep process of deindustrialization going on. So you have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality. All these things gave rise to the black power movement. The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.

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The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty.

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We all know Reagan's legacy, from the Iran-Contra affair to the funding of the Nicaraguan military in which over 200,000 people died. The groundwork for the move steadily to the right happened with the Reagan administration. People want to elevate him to some mythic level; they have their own reason for doing that.

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In The Black Power Mixtape , you hear the voice of Angela Davis - not someone playing Angela Davis.

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Popular literature and culture used to reflect people's aspirations, pain, and passion. All those particular things are no longer available to us.

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