"CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was…" — June Jordan
"CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not."
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61 Quotes by June Jordan
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Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I…
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Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without…
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Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power,…
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I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know…
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If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and…
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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have…
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As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change…
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Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural…
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If we even tolerate any oppression of gay and lesbian Americans, if we join those who would intrude upon the…
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I am the history of the rejection of who I am
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Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of…
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So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other.…
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I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
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To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.
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I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with…
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Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life…
— Bernard Baruch
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Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
— Charles Baudelaire
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of…
— Joseph Addison
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The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where…
— Marek Belka
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The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks,…
— Joe Biden
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Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight…
— Steven Biko
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It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend…
— Josh Billings
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People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age…
— Emily Blunt
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