Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
CORNEL WESTMartin 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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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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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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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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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O’Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?
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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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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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You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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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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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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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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We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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