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Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.

Cornel West

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
confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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Form Murder Soul
You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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High Quality Trust Without
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
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Christian Political President
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Speak Suffering Want
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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Buying Pleasure Selling
Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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Bitterness Long Rage
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
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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Littles Magazine Reading
Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Color Looks 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
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
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
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Ordinary People Wake

Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.

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