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“But you can imagine how it would feel to have a guy’s humanity, compassion and basic courage reflect on the small, scared hateful way some people live their life.”
“I am not trying to stop people from using the word ‘privilege’ as much as I am trying to stop people from using the word ‘privilege’ all the time.”
“Reconstruction was the second phase of the Civil War. It lasted until 1877, when the Confederates won.”
“The second message is that if you are black, the system will treat you differently.”
“I’m familiar with your country; I love your country.”
“I was a very active Republican.”
“What white Americans have never fully understood but what the Negro can never forget — is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it.”
“Conservatism … is a white people’s movement, a scattering of outliers notwithstanding. Always has been, always will be.”
“But American notions of race are the product of racism, not the other way around.”
“I think this is a historically interesting conflict, or at least a historically interesting juxtaposition of two very different ideas about what buses are and aren’t good for.”
“I think it’s not only disgusting but completely inappropriate.”
“It’s hardly reassuring that he’s concerned about one side of the political divide ‘registering all these minority voters.'”
“I am a total supporter of law enforcement, but this was wrong. This was out of control.”
“Assuming because of his appearance he was high on narcotics without reason they began to subdue him, macing and beating him in the head as he fell to his face where he was then held with a great amount of force by two officers double his size as a third one landed on his torso.”
“I’ve been doing this since I was a teenager. I didn’t think I would have to do it when I was 90.”
“Unless you are a white man who has just shot a crowd of people in a school, we are ready to overreact to you.”
“There is a privileged and colonizing spirit of ‘bringing Jesus to the city’ instead of recognizing that Jesus is already there.”
“If it is done out of ignorance, now I have told you.”
“Truly, son, the half has never been told.”
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