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The fact is that the American government and NATO have destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan. Their next targets will be Syria and Iran.
The real hope of the world lies in putting as painstaking thought into the business of mating as we do into other big businesses.
The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.
The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.
I think for folks of color the key to combatting racism period is a) trusting their instincts and b) solidarity with one another.
Black men, Indian men, and gay men have all have something in common: They do not provide an economic security blanket for women.
Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.
Cuba has its own moral system and priorities. That's what keeps it going, the belief that the country can control its own destiny.
I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.
We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.
By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.
I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.
Were talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later.
Heaven knows what I have not been through with, since I saw you-dust, dirt, dyspepsia, hotels, railroads, prairies, tobacco juice.
If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.
Genius hath electric power; Which earth can never tame; Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower; Its flash is still the same.
We don't give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn't sink those ships for you. We did it for the whales.
Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.
In 1993, I chased Cuban and Spanish drag trawlers off the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland. And it cost them $35 million in losses.
Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. The message isn't new, but we haven't learned to live it yet.
Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.
To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master.
What I'm continuing to do is cutting out the equation that wastes the most amount of time - and that is working within the system.
Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
It's really hard to change the world when your first priority is making sure that the little world around yourself doesn't change.
I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.
On an unconscious level, the demonization of sexuality usually implies the demonization of males and the victimization of females.
Women attempt suicide more often because they want to become the priority of those they love rather than always prioritizing them.
Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.
I had a very pleasant three years at Yale. I must say I did take it seriously, and consequently it took me a while to get over it.
I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development.
I found myself trying to be all things to all people. I felt a tremendous sense of responsibility and the pressure of expectation.
There was a time when everyone thought that Earth was flat. Did this unanimous consensus make any difference to the shape of Earth?
They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.
Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.
In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.
I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person.
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.
The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is, that it is not needed for the life which they elect to lead.
Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression
The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer.
Ah, my friend, that is the only true church organization, when heads and hearts unite in working for the welfare of the human race!
Setting aside human rights and international law to have an agenda of war and killing and occupation to me is totally unacceptable.
Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism.
A woman’s duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyes… to speak and act in defiance of convention.
Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.
It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.