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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.
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Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and…
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Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Silence has never brought us anything of worth.
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‎Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then…
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I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in…
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For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be…
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Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our…
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within…
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There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley…
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Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and use it…
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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
— Hosea Ballou
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Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present,…
— Alan Lightman
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There's many a true word spoken in jest.
— James Joyce
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Here is the life of prayer, when in or with the Spirit, a man being made sensible of sin, and how to…
— John Bunyan
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Let us remember, there is One who daily records all we do for Him, and sees more beauty in His servants' work…
— J C Ryle
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Use your health while you have it, my dear friend and brother. Do not cast away peculiar opportunities that may never come…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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Get your texts from God - your thoughts, your words, from God... It is not great talents God blesses so much as…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
— Barry White
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Let a thing here be noted, that the prophet of God sometimes may teach treason against kings, and yet neither he nor…
— John Knox
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Though this world has a way of diminishing and demeaning men and women, the reality is we are all of royal, divine…
— M. Russell Ballard
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Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.
— Ernest Gaines
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A word spoken in loving kindness is worth far more than any gift.
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
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