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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.

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Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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Bitterness Driven Soul
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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Book Miss People
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Certain Kind Stuff
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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Differences Fundamentals Organization
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Slavery Thrive Unlearn
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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Brick Kings Legacy Mortar
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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Smiley Water Way
To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely – to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.
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Christian Land Name
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Century Form Tribalism
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate
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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People Sight White
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’m a Christian, but I’m not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its place, social pleasure has its place, televisual pleasure has its place [in life].
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Believe Christian Intellectual
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Constant Possibility Probability
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
Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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Bitterness Long Rage

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