Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
June Jordan
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I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise. -
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I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. -
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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- That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.
- There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.
- The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.
- But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.
- Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.