• I try to encourage young people to look among themselves for models as opposed to assuming that they can find them in the past.
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• Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
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• What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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• I often say that respect for your elders is good, but you have to combine the right amount of respect with a few doses of disrespect in order to extricate yourselves from the historical past.
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• We have to dispense with old ideas about Black unity or women's unity.
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• The kind of unity we need, I think, is unity forged around political projects as opposed to unity based simplistically on race or gender.
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• If we don't do the work, we will be confronting a future far direr and far more dangerous than the present.
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• What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.
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• We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had an impact on black populations.
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