Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
CORNEL WESTThere 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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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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You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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It’s true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.
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Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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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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Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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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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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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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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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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