"I went to a segregated school; I was……" — Michael Eric Dyson
"I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man."
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63 Quotes by Michael Eric Dyson
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The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.
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Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.
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There is no conscious choice of heterosexual identity any more than there is a homosexual one. The last person in…
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When Dr. King was murdered, I had no idea who he was. But as soon as I heard his words…
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We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.
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