"White supremacy is not just a social arrangement: it is a race-based faith."

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Source : "Why Blacks Know Race Is a Factor" by Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr., www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2011.

James A. Forbes

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“All that the Devil asks is acquiescence ...”
“There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic.”
“Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children.”
“I love designer stuff but like it will only be like, on a whim. I love Alexander Wang so much, but it's expensive.”
“gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you feel and live. A sound to rise you up again.”
“No movie becomes a hit without good reviews and word-of-mouth. No agency ever became a great brand by merely saying it was great - in advertising or by any other medium.”
“And do you agree with me, that the first condition of an artist should be to bear respect toward what is great, and to bow to it and acknowledge it and not attempt to extinguish great flames for the sake of making his own rushlight burn more brightly?”

Source : Letter to Wilhelm Taubert, August 27, 1831.
“Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks faith in himself, the child, or humanity or himself.”

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