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Wherever I Found Resistance To Oppression, Whether In Africa, In Latin America, Certainly Here In America In The South, I Joined That Resistance. I Took Part In The Labor Movement, In Social Movements, In The Church Community. I Felt That It Was The Honorable Thing To Do And Still Do.

Not Since The Early Days Of The Civil Rights Movement Has America Been Given An Opportunity As Great As The Opportunity We Have Now. It's One Thing For Us To Avenge Our Pain, Our Anger, And Our Rage By Targeting Bin Laden And A Handful Of Men Who Have Wrought This Villainy. But One Should Be Wise Enough To Ask, What Fueled All This? What Continues To Sustain The Possibility That This Will Not Go Away? I Think The Answer Is Poverty.

I Would Hope With All My Heart, That Jay Z Not Take Personally What Was Said... I Would Like To Take This Opportunity To Say To Jay Z And Beyonce: I’m Wide Open, My Heart Is Filled With Nothing But Hope And The Promise That We Can Sit And Have A One-on-one To Understand Each Other.

I Delighted In The Music Of Africa, The Earliest Of The Slave Plantation Songs, The Transformation Into Christianity And All That Christianity Brought To The Lives Of The Africans Who Were Forced To Come To America.

I Am Who I Am Despite What America Has Put Before Me. I Am Who I Am Despite The Obstacles That We Have All Faced Based Upon Race And Based Upon Social And Spiritual Humiliation.