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“You have to go back. And you’re going back to train for the Olympics.”
3:29

“You have to go back. And you’re going back to train for the Olympics.”

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“Everything was so quiet like somebody had shut the volume control off on the world.”
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“Everything was so quiet like somebody had shut the volume control off on the world.”

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"When you and I communicate with each other, we can do it by beats."
3:10

"When you and I communicate with each other, we can do it by beats."

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“I could stand in my backyard and listen to Ku Klux Klan meetings.”
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“I could stand in my backyard and listen to Ku Klux Klan meetings.”

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"When he closed his eyes he would see the bombs."
2:34

"When he closed his eyes he would see the bombs."

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“I want to take the bullet and save my friends.”
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“I want to take the bullet and save my friends.”

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“My earliest memory is when you came to the first-grade classroom to dissect cow hearts.”
2:41

“My earliest memory is when you came to the first-grade classroom to dissect cow hearts.”

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“When I took you home, I didn’t know how to feel.”
2:36

“When I took you home, I didn’t know how to feel.”

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"I was 15 years of age when I first started having my own private sit-ins."
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"I was 15 years of age when I first started having my own private sit-ins."

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“I went through 39 years of incarceration because of some things that you put in motion.”
4:09

“I went through 39 years of incarceration because of some things that you put in motion.”

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“That Christmas, I don’t even remember what gift I got.”
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“That Christmas, I don’t even remember what gift I got.”

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"I put you through hell."
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"I put you through hell."

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“The school's mascot was a Confederate colonel...”
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“The school's mascot was a Confederate colonel...”

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“My father did what no black man at the time was supposed to do, he allowed his car to run out of gas.”
3:11

“My father did what no black man at the time was supposed to do, he allowed his car to run out of gas.”

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“I could see from the doctor’s face that it was really bad.”
2:53

“I could see from the doctor’s face that it was really bad.”

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“Everybody knew my father but me. I just felt cheated.”
3:15

“Everybody knew my father but me. I just felt cheated.”

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“If you had walked away and left me there, nobody would have looked askance.”
2:45

“If you had walked away and left me there, nobody would have looked askance.”

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"Not a lot of people become a mom at 28 to teenage daughters."
2:32

"Not a lot of people become a mom at 28 to teenage daughters."

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"I have your name so I have to set a good example."
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"I have your name so I have to set a good example."

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"They intended to get all of us January the 10th, 1966."
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"They intended to get all of us January the 10th, 1966."