"One of the most important parts of the civil rights movement that people don't talk about was these mass meetings. It's like "Movement Church." It's a combination of the music of the movement and the church. Those mass meetings are where people got the energy to go on to the next day."

-- Stanley Nelson Jr.

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“I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.”

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“As for feminism, I am a womanist more than I'm a feminist.”
“I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I have become an environmental campaigner.”
“We can always create more inventory. You don't just turn people away. The challenge is finding new ways to accommodate people.”
“For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of the common people had beauty. Middle-class people held no appeal for me at all.”
“Night and day, you are the one.”
“Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.”
“It is not only spirits who punish the evil, the soul brings itself to judgment: and also it is not right for those who endure for ever to attain everything in a short time: and also, there is need of human virtue. If punishment followed instantly upon sin, men would act justly from fear and have no virtue.”

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