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)
CORNEL WESTRacism 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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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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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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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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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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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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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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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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Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
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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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Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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