"A quarter of a century after his death, critics argue Martin Luther King's dream and vision have not been realized as the United States is still very much "racist.""
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"To heal society of racism, the most important place to start is with ourselves, for we are the people we most have the ability to change."
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"“We as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values… when machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered.” --Martin Luther King, Jr. April 4, 1967"
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"The U.S. is not a post-racial society, as the events of the past year attest -- from a governor glorifying segregation to a Fox pundit calling for Michael Vick's execution."
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"Over the past eleven years, advocates and homeless shelter workers from around the country have received news reports of men, women and even children being harassed, kicked, set on fire, beaten to death, and even decapitated. Since 1999, the National Coalition for the Homeless has issued an annual report on hate crimes against the homeless."
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"I showed them that during the American Revolution drunkards, laggards, prostitutes, and pirates pioneered many of the freedoms and pleasures we now cherish -- including non-marital sex, interracial socializing, dancing, shopping, divorce, and the weekend -- and that the Founding Fathers, in the name of democracy, opposed them. I argued not only that many white Americans envied slaves but also that they did so for good reason, since slave culture offered many liberating alternatives to the highly repressive, work-obsessed, anti-sex culture of the early United States. I demonstrated that prostitutes, not feminists, won virtually all the freedoms that were denied to women but are now taken for granted. By tracing the path of immigrants from arrival as "primitives" to assimilation as "civilized" citizens, I explained that white people lost their rhythm by becoming good Americans. I presented evidence that without organized crime, we might not have jazz, Hollywood, Las Vegas, legal...
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"'''State racism' and 'left' intellectual racism together produce a 'conflation of the migrant, immigrant, backward, Islamist, male chauvinist and terrorist,' philosopher Jacques Ranciere explained Saturday, September 11 at Montreuil during a gathering entitled 'The Romas, and Who Else?.'""
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