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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.

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Book Miss People
I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years “Be successful, be successful, be successful” as opposed to “Be great, be great, be great”. There’s a qualitative difference.
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Differences Successful Year
You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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High Quality Trust Without
We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Kindness Radical Sweetness
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
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Ghetto Police Racism
Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Color Looks President
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Christian Political President
Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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Bitterness Long Rage
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Certain Kind Stuff
I certainly support the right of the gay brothers and sisters to come together. I believe true love can take a number of different forms. If they choose to be married that’s fine, but the important thing is I hope they find love
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Believe Brother Gay
Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)
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Democracy Majority Rights
I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.
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Idea Men Wise
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Slavery Thrive Unlearn
Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
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Dark Profound Root
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Constant Possibility Probability
Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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Jazz Music Need

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