The revolutionary woman knows the world she seeks to overthrow is precisely one in which love between equal human beings is well nigh impossible. We are still part of the ironical working-out of this, our own cruel contradiction. One of the most compelling facts which can unite women and make us act is the overwhelming indignity or bitter hurt of being regarded as simply __he other_, __n object_, __ommodity_, __hing_. We act directly from a consciousness of the impossibility of loving or being loved without distortion. But we must still demand now the preconditions of what is impossible at the moment. It is a most disturbing dialectic, our praxis of pain.
In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.__ __ Have a Dream_ speech is one citizen__ soul-searing plea with his countrymen___hites and Blacks___o recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America__ ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.
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In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.__ __ Have a Dream_ speech is one citizen__ soul-searing plea with his countrymen___hites and Blacks___o recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America__ ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.
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