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Black And Jewish Leaders Have Been A Coalition Of Conscience.

If There Are Occasions When My Grape Turned Into A Raisin And My Joy Bell Lost Its Resonance, Please Forgive Me. Charge It To My Head And Not To My Heart.

Negroes' Problem Is That They Do Not Have Their Egos. That's Why Our Churches End Up Having A White Service, Because Our Preacher Is Not Arrogant Enough To Take God's Word, So He Have To Go And Get Some White Fellow's Agenda And Put It In His Church.

The Fact Is In A City Like Chicago, For Example, Unemployment In The Black Community Is Around 20 Percent For Adults, 35 Percent For Youth, They Bail Out The Banks, Public Schools, There Is A Deep Divide. We Need A Plan For Reconstruction And Redevelopment And I Hope That - Police Are The Gatekeepers But Behind That Gate Are These Problems Of Disparities And Injustice.

Both Tears And Sweat Are Salty, But They Render A Different Result. Tears Will Get You Sympathy; Sweat Will Get You Change.