We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Martin Luther King’s legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.
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There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.
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We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.
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It’s true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.
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I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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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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Frederick Douglas’s agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a better democracy. And it’s spilt over for women’s rights; it’s split over for worker’s rights and so forth.
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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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I’m actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.
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Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Going all the way back to Jeremiah Wright and Tavis Smiley and Van Jones and even Shirley Sherrod and maybe even Maxine Waters and Charles Rangel. We’re going to see what his [Barack Obama] response is.
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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I don’t draw any distinctions between forms of bigotry or forms of ideology that lose sight of the humanity of people. I can’t stand white supremacy. I can’t stand male supremacy. I can’t stand imperial subjugation. I can’t stand homophobia.
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Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
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He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Hey, you got something going here. I think we’ve got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
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Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Isabel Wilkerson’s book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don’t miss it!
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