Author Ta-Nehisi Coates shares how it felt to have Oprah pick his novel “The Water Dancer” for her book club.
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The nation’s problem isn’t that we don’t have enough money. It’s that we don’t have the moral capacity to face what ails society.
“Racism Is Satanism.” It was this conviction that launched Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, a religious Jew from a Hasidic family in Poland, into the American civil rights movement.
“We do not want our freedom gradually,” John Lewis said, “but we want to be free now!”
We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.
Major speeches and letters from the life and career of South Africa’s first black president, organized by date, topic and readers’ favorites.
What began as a statement by an accused prisonor became, over the 29 minutes it took Mandela to deliver it, his best known and most important speech. It was a recounting of his story up to that point, an expression of his views and a morally forceful argument on behalf of his cause.
Excerpts from 'An ideal I am prepared to die for' and other memorable speeches by Mandela.
Nelson Mandela was by nature an optimist, but he was as hard-headed as they come. He did not embrace the consoling view of history that, as Martin Luther King said (in a line often quoted by Barack Obama), “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
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Misty Copeland is speaking out about racial injustice and inequality in ballet.
What is shocking is how many white folks are trying to distance themselves from the problem instead of being part of the solution.