"I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept."
"There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the aftermath of slavery, the development of the Ku Klux Klan. There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice."
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"You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time."
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