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“The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go into the elegant apartments and get a stockbroker who's sniffing cocaine.”
Noam Chomsky
Law Enforcement
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Social Inequality
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Drug Policy
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Racial Discrimination
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Class Privilege
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“She worked for the Studevants, who treated her like a dog. She stood it. Had to stand it; or work for poorer white folks who would treat her worse; or go jobless.”
Langston Hughes
Racial Discrimination
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Labor
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Survival
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Injustice
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Limited Choices
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“There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads – they couldn’t be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins. They’re ugly, but those are the facts of life.”
Harper Lee
Inequality
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Justice
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Racial Discrimination
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Systemic Bias
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Societal Flaws
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Oppression
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“In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.”
Nelson Mandela
Apartheid
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Travel Restrictions
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History
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Oppression
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Racial Discrimination
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Ivan Turgenev
Camille Paglia
J.P. Morgan
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Guy Kawasaki
Mitch Hedberg
Charles Lamb
Margaret Fuller
Steven Wright
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Theodore Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Oprah Winfrey
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