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" We must create a committee to address the long-standing discrimination against black people in America. "

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" Black people, we are fully deserving of the room and space to fully express our humanity. This is what Black Lives Matter is truly about. "

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" I just look back at my time in college and think about how much my community activism and my work in neighborhoods really informed my actual academic career and beyond... It can provide a way better learning than the traditional classroom setting. "

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