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As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.
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Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.
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And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings.
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The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.
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The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.
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Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.
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I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980.
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I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn't drop out and run away.
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Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person.
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I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.
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As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.
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Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action.
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You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.
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