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How Can You Have In Our Country That Is Based Upon Liberality And Liberation, Be So Anti-liberal. That's Toxic Waste To Our Consciousness. It's Hard To Be An American Conservative Because That's A Contradiction In Terms. Now If You Take Away Freedom Of Speech, Freedom Of Press, Freedom Of Protest, And Lock People Out Based Upon Their Race, Their Language And Their Religion, That's Conservative And Fascist. America Is A Liberal Idea.

If You Think Black People Have A Motivation Problem, Open Up A Wal-mart And Advertise A Thousand Jobs. Watch 5,000 People Show Up.

The Trouble Is That Nonviolence Is So Often Defined As Refusal To Fight, And That Is The American Definition Of Cowardice. In Fact, Marching Unarmed Against The Guns And Dogs Of The Police Requires More Courage Than Does Aggression. The Perverted Idea Of Manhood Coming From The Barrel Of A Gun Is What Keeps People From Understanding Nonviolence.

We Must Face The No. 1 Critical Issue Of Our Day. It Is Youth Crime In General And Black-on-black Crime In Particular. There Is Nothing More Painful To Me At This Stage In My Life Than To Walk Down The Street And Hear Footsteps And Start Thinking About Robbery. Then Look Around And See Somebody White And Feel Relieved. After All We Have Been Through, Just To Think We Can't Walk Down Our Own Streets, How Humiliating.

Today's Students Can Put Dope In Their Veins Or Hope In Their Brains. If They Can Conceive It And Believe It, They Can Achieve It. They Must Know It Is Not Their Aptitude But Their Attitude That Will Determine Their Altitude.