All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.
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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.
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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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The "paper tiger" hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.
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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
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Too much agreement kills a chat.
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You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.
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You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
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You're either part of the solution or part of the problem.
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