{"quotes":[{"text":"The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["americans","barack-obama","choosing","civic-duty","courage","democratic-national-convention","famous","fear","gun-violence","hope","legacies","making-choices","mitt-romney","options","patriotism","police-reform","police-shootings","political-advocacy","political-awareness","political-philosophy","political-responsibility","politics","presidential-election","presidential-election-campaign","by-aberjhani","republican-national-convention","savannah--aberjhani","social-awareness","social-responsibility","the-future","vision-of-america","voting","xenophobia"],"id":143161,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America’s jails who were so taken by Malcolm [X’s} spirit that they became warriors and the powers that be understood them as warriors. They knew that a lot of these other middle-class [black] leaders were not warriors; they were professionals; they were careerists. But these warriors had callings, and they have paid an incalculable and immeasurable price in those cells.","author":"Cornel West","tags":["african-american-history","african-american-men","african-americans","black-history-month","black-leadership","black-liberation-movement","black-middle-class","black-prophets","black-revolutionaries","careerists","conscientious-objection","freedom-fighters","industrial-prison-complex","leadership","malcolm-x","martyrs","mass-incarceration","political-advocacy","political-philosophy","political-prisoners","prison-reform","racial-discrimination","racism","warriors"],"id":346879,"author_id":"Cornel+West"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":2,"pages":1}}