Freedom Quote by June Jordan

“Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I am working for mine.” quote by June Jordan — Download Open image

“Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I am working for mine.”

June Jordan

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My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

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“the motivation behind every sentence is the wish to say something real to somebody real.”

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“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived, had no moral ground on which to stand. They had the judges, the juries, the shotguns, the law—in a word, power. But it was a criminal power, to be feared but not respected, and to be…

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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is…

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