Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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There's no question that the Kings have been, are, and can be great hosts for any major events.
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
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One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
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It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.
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When you are insulted, you must not only not resent it, but you must make it an opportunity to exhibit the Son of God in your life. And you cannot imitate the nature of Jesus-it is either in you or it is not. A personal insult becomes an opportunity for a saint to reveal the incredible sweetness of the Lord Jesus.
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Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him He lags the long bright morning through, Ever so tired of nothing to do.
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To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.
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Cultivate prompt, exact, unquestioning, joyous obedience to every command that it is evident from its context applies to you. Be on the lookout for new orders from your King. Blessing lies in the direction of obedience to them. God's commands are but signboards that mark the road to present success and blessedness and to eternal glory.
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Poor or fuzzy communications are major time-wasters. Take the time to be crystal-clear in your communications with others.
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Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
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What if she figures out you're not very smart?
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Martin [Luther King] wasn't, basically, the kind of person - certainly at the stage that I knew him closest - wasn't the kind of person you could engage in dialogue with, certainly, if the dialogue questioned the almost exclusive rightness of his position.
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I've been poor and I've been rich, and rich is better.
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We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.
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How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.
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You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
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When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.
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To you your father should be as a god; One that composed your beauties, yea, and one To whom you are but as a form in wax, By him imprinted, and within his power To leave the figure or disfigure it.
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For a noble heart, the most precious gift becomes poor, when the giver stops loving.
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Drink down all unkindness.
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The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives.
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I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them.
