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Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin. ↗

— Eason Jordan

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We daily share emotions, our personal and shared needs and hope. ↗

— Frank Jordan

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To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way. ↗

— June Jordan

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Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. ↗

— June Jordan

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In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way. ↗

— June Jordan

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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. ↗

— June Jordan

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Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies? ↗

— June Jordan

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Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important. ↗

— June Jordan

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So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. ↗

— June Jordan

#among #becomes #between #dialogue #each

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#achieve #around #climb #everybody #figure