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American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen. – Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, 1992

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Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. – Countess of Blessington

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As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: “The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.” – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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The time is always right to do what is right. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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They use all of the music that I did in the 50s, 60s and the 70s behind people like Tupac and LL Cool J. Im into all that stuff. – Donald Byrd

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I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button. – Francis Ford Coppola

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Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nations promise through civility, courage, compassion and character. – George W. Bush

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication. – Theodore White

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