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confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder

Cornel West

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
You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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High Quality Trust Without
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
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
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Ordinary People Wake
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Christian Political President
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
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
Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Absolute Fine Truth
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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Smiley Water Way
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
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
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Think Thinking Value Yourself
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Slavery Thrive Unlearn
Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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Bitterness Long Rage

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