Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
Social media itself is not protest. To tweet is not to protest physically. To do a Facebook post, and though it's critical and crucial, is not to show up and embody the anger you feel, to embody the righteous outrage you feel, to embody the concern you feel. This is about putting feet to pavement and to register in the consciousness of America that this is something that's problematic.Michael Eric Dyson
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Initially, when I joined Twitter, I was active. But, later, I felt that whatever I was tweeting or saying on a social platform turned out to be a little boring.
Mahesh Babu -
France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.
Xavier Niel -
I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country.
Barbara Mikulski -
I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'.
Barbara Boxer -
Social Security is legally prohibited from contributing to the deficit. It cannot use debt to pay out benefits.
Ted Deutch -
I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.
Patch Adams
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I don't think about commercial concerns when I first come up with something. When I sit down at the piano, I try to come up with something that moves me.
Lamont Dozier -
I worked with someone who told me they'd never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.
Ariana Grande -
The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.
R. C. Sproul -
It's more important to be righteous than to be right.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
[Dirk Gently] just doesn't understand social cues.
Samuel Barnett -
Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.
Ziggy Marley
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If the social conservatives feel that they have a strong argument on traditional marriage, then feel free to have it.
Andrew Breitbart -
And the venality of those Judaized is incapable of explaining anti-Semitism as a social phenomenon, we will call it the anti-Semitic theory.
Alexandru C. Cuza -
We've got to stop worrying about the offense, too. Our biggest concern should be our defense.
Alonzo Mourning -
Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.
Lisa Ling -
It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Man’s consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.
Vladimir Lenin -
Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?
Miguel de Unamuno -
I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in a Clinton candidacy or whether she really is something unique and has something to offer apart from her husband.
Barbara Olson -
When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.
Victor Salva -
Social media itself is not protest. To tweet is not to protest physically. To do a Facebook post, and though it's critical and crucial, is not to show up and embody the anger you feel, to embody the righteous outrage you feel, to embody the concern you feel. This is about putting feet to pavement and to register in the consciousness of America that this is something that's problematic.
Michael Eric Dyson