"Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market."

-- Cynthia McKinney

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“When I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.”

Source : "NPR Fires Juan Williams, Journalists React". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 22, 2010.
“Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.”
“I attributed their behavior to the fact that they didn't have a TV, but television didn't teach you everything. Asking for candy on Halloween was called trick-or-treating, but asking for candy on November first was called begging, and it made people uncomfortable. This was one of the things you were supposed to learn simply by being alive, and it angered me that the Tomkeys did not understand it.”
“Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicisation of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanisation of politics.”
“I don't know why this world keeps turning, round and round. But I wish it would stop and let me off right now!”
“Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song.”
“The internet is an amazing medium for languages,”
“Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.”

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