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"Radical simply means "grasping things at the root.""

Change, Radical

"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."

People, Class, Connection, Middleclass

"Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer."

Society, People, Progress, Laws

"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."

Constitution, Crime, Slavery

"We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death."

Death, Freedom, Road

"We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society."

Society, Talk

"The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time."

Time, Work, Desire, Tension

"When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to."

Democracy, Wonder

"That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated."

Work, People, Being, Numbers

"The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people."

Death, People

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Nation, Country, End, Lies, Mystery

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Nation, Country, Trouble

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John Adams, American President

Nation, Necessity, Right

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Nation, Country, Pity

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Nation,

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Nation, Country, Land, Mercury, Rest

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Nation, Country, Republicans

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Nation, France, President