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= "We are the people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit." = = -Tom Hayden, //Port Huron Statement// = = = media type="youtube" key="uZVxjH04aIY" height="315" width="420" "People killin' people dying children hurt and you hear them cryin'"-Black Eyed Peas media type="youtube" key="u62OtM_vt5k" height="315" width="560" align="right"

=== "But for all those who scratched and clawed their way to get a piece of the American Dream, there were many who didn't make it--those who were ultimately defeated, in one way or another, by discrimination. That legacy of defeat was passed on to future generations--those young men and increasingly young women who we see standing on street corners or languishing in our prisons, without hope or prospects for the future." -Barack Obama ===

"There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long after his become their equal...Slavery recedes, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary." --Alexis De Tocqueville

==== "Hunger and homelessness (are) at record levels in US cities, citing an overall 26% demand increase over the past year and 19% more homelessness. Yet worsening conditions leave millions on their own and out of luck because Washington has other priorities excluding them." -US Conference of Mayors in Report on Hunger and Homelessness in US cities ====

====** "The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it" -John Steinbeck, //The// //Grapes of Wrath// ** ====

//"I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."// -Ralph Ellison, //The Invisible Man//
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