"It appeared clear to me - partly because……" — Timothy B. Tyson
"It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to the adult world."
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10 Quotes by Timothy B. Tyson
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Unjust social orders do no fall merely by appeals to the consciences of the oppressor, though such appeals may be…
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We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our…
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Every minister worthy of the name has to walk the line between prophetic vision and spiritual sustenance, between telling people…
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We cherish the conventional story of Dr. King and nonviolence, in fact, precisely because that narrative demands so little of…
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In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.
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The Lord works through deeply flawed people, since He made so few of the other kind.
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If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth.
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In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited…
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It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away…
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
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