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Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust.
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We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only…
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When I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.
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Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying…
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We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
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Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction,…
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My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."
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Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be…
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When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political, or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news…
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If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.
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Dream! Dream! And then go for it!
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We struggled against apartheid because we were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about. It is…
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I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty.…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human soul, and the summum bonum, may possibly make…
— George Berkeley
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You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter
— Tacitus
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Infinite Love is a weapon of matchless potency. It is the 'summum bonum' of life. It is an attribute of the brave,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest…
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If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
— B.F. Skinner
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