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Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.

Cornel West

Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
CORNEL WEST

Christian Political President
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
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 loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Century Form Tribalism
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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Entangled Falling Love
Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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Bitterness Long Rage
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
Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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Culture Hip Hop Rap
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Slavery Thrive Unlearn
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
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Think Thinking Value Yourself
Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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Jazz Music Need
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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Inspirational Loyalty Relationship
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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Philosophy Understanding 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

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