Will Walker
Will Walker
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When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they'd always known - the plantations - because they attempted to exercise their 'democratic' right to vote.
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As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.
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One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.
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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
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In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off the farms or taken off the welfare roles for registering to vote. While working there, I met the civil-rights lawyer I later married - we became an interracial couple.
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We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.
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I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.
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Those are the kind of programs we would like to see subsidies shifted into.
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Those fellows who ran the studios had a commitment to making good films.
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The queen doesn't really want her son to be married. So she devises the test. But the princess twitches all night and proves she's of royal descent.
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Photography is a very forgiving medium. Anybody that can afford film and a camera can make pictures.
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I came to photography with the desire to conquer this machine, the camera, and make it my slave. Instead, I have now a respect for it and all machines as expanders of my awareness.
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We have now broken down the barrier to entry for any small business to get online.
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Now, I ask you, had you not rather be killed than to be a slave to a tyrant, who takes the life of your mother, wife, and dear little children? Look upon your mother, wife and children, and answer God Almighty; and believe this, that it is no more harm for you to kill a man who is trying to kill you, than it is for you to take a drink of water when thirsty.