Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide to help the less fortunate--while others are short-changed, then even acts of kindness end up supporting unjust arrangements. We must never ignore the injustices that make charity necessary, or the inequalities that make it possible.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.
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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
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There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
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So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.
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But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in – make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.
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If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.
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You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'
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I don't eat bubble gum, but I like the smell.
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As an Indian, I would like to back my government.
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Human destiny will be what we make of it. And here in Prague, let us honor our past by reaching for a better future. Let us bridge our divisions, build upon our hopes, accept our responsibility to leave this world more prosperous and more peaceful than we found it. Together we can do it.
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Wherever there are communities fighting for freedom and liberation, there are serious tensions.
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I want to show people my interpretation of what creating music is, and this is where it comes from: the heart.
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While choosing shows, I look at stories and the concept, and that has to be different.
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The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.
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I've always liked Muir without knowing quite why.
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Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.
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Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.
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It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
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We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'
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Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide to help the less fortunate--while others are short-changed, then even acts of kindness end up supporting unjust arrangements. We must never ignore the injustices that make charity necessary, or the inequalities that make it possible.
