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“There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom.”

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What is accurately portrayed is the rich humanity not just of Martin Luther King but of the movement, which was a multiracial movement. You…

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I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from 'gangster' to 'redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.'

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“Like King, we need to put on our cemetery clothes and be coffin-ready for the next great democratic battle.”

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“You can't really move forward until you look back. [From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University]”

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When we think of globalization we are thinking in part of structures and institutions that have been developed over time and that have allowed…

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The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.

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The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this regard, they…

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For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.

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I don't draw any distinctions between forms of bigotry or forms of ideology that lose sight of the humanity of people. I can't stand…

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Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him...I refuse to accept…

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Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so…

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Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free!

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One of the greatest mental freedoms is truly not caring what anyone else thinks of you.

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There is value in being free and spontaneous but the greatest power comes from seeing and using what results from that freedom.

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Faith keeps you strong. Love keeps you whole. And Happiness keeps you alive. So don't be a downer! Be happy, be strong, be free,…

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Collective judgment of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own…

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You can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of…

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Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions...…

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The moment you stop caring about what other people think of you is when you'll know what true freedom is.

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True independence means being free from the domination of your own internal automatic behaviors, not doing what you feel like when the urge strikes.

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I try when I'm writing to fill my head and my ears with all sorts of stuff and then let it settle and filter…

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Feeling free inside oneself is being free.

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