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- We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by…
- Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of…
- I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a…
- There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the…
- My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we can go about…
- Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a…
- I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have…
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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
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- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
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