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| 98c97c2 | The job facing American voters... in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear. | courage politics fear hope famous-quotes choosing civic-duty democratic-national-convention gun-violence making-choices mitt-romney political-awareness political-responsibility presidential-election presidential-election-campaign republican-national-convention savannah-author-aberjhani social-responsibility vision-of-america quotes-by-aberjhani political-advocacy options the-future social-awareness legacies barack-obama police-reform police-shootings voting xenophobia political-philosophy patriotism | Aberjhani | |
| 43e62d8 | There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America's jails who were so taken by Malcolm [X's} spirit that they became warriors and the powers that be understood them as warriors. They knew that a lot of these other middle-class [black] leaders were not warriors; they were professionals; they were careerists. But these warriors had callings, and they have paid an incalculable and immeasurable price in those cells. | racism leadership african-american-men black-leadership black-liberation-movement black-middle-class black-prophets black-revolutionaries careerists conscientious-objection freedom-fighters industrial-prison-complex mass-incarceration political-advocacy political-prisoners prison-reform martyrs african-americans malcolm-x black-history-month racial-discrimination warriors political-philosophy | Cornel West |