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“Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious.”

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Melissa Harris-Perry is an American writer, political commentator, and television host. Born on October 2, 1973, she is known for her insightful views on political and social issues. more

“The land on which they (the Founding Fathers) formed this Union was stolen. The hands with which they built this nation were enslaved. The women who birthed the citizens of the nation are second class. This is the imperfect fabric of our nation, at times we’ve torn and stained it, and at other moments, we mend and repair it. But it’s ours, all of it. The imperialism, the genocide, the slavery, also the liberation and the hope and the deeply American belief that our best days still lie ahead of us.”

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“So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.”

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“The problem is that many of our policymakers want to base sweeping laws on those feelings.”

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“We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children. So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.”

“Our involvement in the civil rights movement is what sent us into our involvement against apartheid.”

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“A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.”

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Author:Massad Ayoob

“Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue, have a horror of inflicting that nightmarish, never forgotten damage on a fellow human being. Perhaps the only more terrifying prospect is that such a fate should befall us or our loved ones. This is why we, a representative cross-section of America's population, keep deadly weapons for personal defense.”

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Author:Massad Ayoob

“The Second Amendment isn't about duck hunting or target shooting.”

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Author:Massad Ayoob

“In a lifetime among cops since, I've noted that investigators who piece together the aftermaths of home invasion murders tend to keep their guns on all the time after that, even when off duty in their own house, and keep them by the bed when they go to sleep.They have learned from the helplessly-murdered dead”

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Author:Massad Ayoob

“My own idea of a $5,500 .45 auto is a used Volkswagon with a Glock 30 in the glove box.”

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Author:Massad Ayoob

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