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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.

Cornel West

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
You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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High Quality Trust Without
Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Absolute Fine Truth
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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Belief Difference Strong
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
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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Country People Rights
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
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
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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Hey People Thinking
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Certain Kind Stuff
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Century Form Tribalism
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Constant Possibility Probability
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
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate
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

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