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All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.
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Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives…
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The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair.
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Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.
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I live to harass white folks.
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A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief - as well as injustice…
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It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.
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We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity,…
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Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as…
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However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation -- to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we…
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Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.
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Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly…
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
— Saint Augustine
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We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so…
— C.S. Lewis
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Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!
— John Dryden
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How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.
— Khalil Gibran
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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's…
— George Eliot
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There is an interdependence between those who have and those who have not. The process of giving exalts the poor and humbles…
— Marion G. Romney
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Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.
— Edward Abbey
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Take any country that has laws against hate crimes, inspiring hatred and genocide and so on. The first thing they would do…
— Noam Chomsky
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... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have…
— Thomas Love Peacock
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Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God, this is the god of idolatry.
— William Bernard Ullathorne
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As our mother earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny…
— Ernst Haeckel
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