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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God preserve me from idiots and men in love, which is the same thing.
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When he turned his attention inward, Cole could feel his power burning bright.
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The essence of spirituality is the duty to live to its full the glorious destiny of being human. The purpose of religion should be to empower all people in this adventure of living with dignity and fulfillment.
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Bigotry is surely an exportable American commodity, especially when it comes to race.
