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/ page 826 of 1205 /I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.
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Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
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Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
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First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
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In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.
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It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.
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The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.
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I like poems that are little games.
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But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.
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Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
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The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.
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But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.
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There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.
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Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.
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If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.
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