If I Can Make It, You Can

People Internalize, From The Jail To Student Loan Debt, To Credit Card Debt, To Unemployment To The Whole Collective. It Manifests Itself In Many Ways, In People's Home Lives, Domestic Stuff.

We Must Face The No. 1 Critical Issue Of Our Day. It Is Youth Crime In General And Black-on-black Crime In Particular. There Is Nothing More Painful To Me At This Stage In My Life Than To Walk Down The Street And Hear Footsteps And Start Thinking About Robbery. Then Look Around And See Somebody White And Feel Relieved. After All We Have Been Through, Just To Think We Can't Walk Down Our Own Streets, How Humiliating.

It'll Be A Great Day When The Seniors Have All The Baseball Caps They Need And The Pentagon Bombs Gilligan's Island.

The Trouble Is That Nonviolence Is So Often Defined As Refusal To Fight, And That Is The American Definition Of Cowardice. In Fact, Marching Unarmed Against The Guns And Dogs Of The Police Requires More Courage Than Does Aggression. The Perverted Idea Of Manhood Coming From The Barrel Of A Gun Is What Keeps People From Understanding Nonviolence.

We Must Not Measure Greatness From The Mansion Down, But From The Manger Up. Jesus Said That We Should Not Be Judged By The Bark We Wear But By The Fruit That We Bear. Jesus Said That We Must Measure Greatness By How We Treat The Least Of These.