Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
Bigotry is surely an exportable American commodity, especially when it comes to race.
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The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.
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Discrimination and bigotry have no place in our society, and I believe Senator (Rick) Santorum's unfortunate remarks undermine Republican principles of inclusion and opportunity.
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Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
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It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.
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I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.
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What stands out to me in America was all the police vs. citizens turmoil. It's decades of bad policing, bad schooling, racism, bigotry and other factors finally spilling into mainstream culture. I would like to see America evolve on how the laws are enforced on the streets.
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The U.S. is a Government which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance.
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Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.
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The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry.
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Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was held up by air. The loss of confidence that affected banks and financial instruments was not affecting cherubs, cupids and flattened popes. The objects hadn't changed: what was there before was there after. But a vacancy was created with the clamoring crowds deserted and retrenched.
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Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.
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Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.
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At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature. Just to be in the presence of nature your feelings and 'little seedlings' start to awake. So if we disassociate ourselves from God we cut nature out, too. More and more we turn nature into a commodity, into eco-tourism. But we must integrate it into the way people live every day.
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Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.
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There is no intolerance in the world so great as the intolerance of tolerance, and no bigotry so excessive as the bigotry of the image breaker. To praise the devil is second nature. To praise God is an education.
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I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.
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Whether thats positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.
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Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn't take anything drastic. You needn't be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
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Now why the hell would I want to increase the volume of my ejaculation ? They can already hear me in the apartment next door.
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You just try to learn and see what you can put in your repertoire, and that's what I try to do.
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I don't have any pressure on myself. I don't have a big record label backing me. I'm doing it all myself.
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With dancers, we are all the time dancing with somebody else. It happens often that you meet a new dancer or you have a new partner. But what is true is that sometimes, when you dance with some people, there is not the right feeling.
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Sometimes the reading is related to something I do, sometimes it's not. I feel like every time I read something, there's a quote or something that comes into the work later. There's nothing that happens by coincidence. It's fate, I would say.
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Bigotry is surely an exportable American commodity, especially when it comes to race.
