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"I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it...but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill."
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"Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is afraid of life."

"We stand the risk of a standstill, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."

"If the road behind me is not growing ever longer, then it is likely that the feet underneath me are not moving any longer. And if my feet are not moving, I have somehow, somewhere traded this most glorious journey for lesser endeavors."

"Don't calculate the world." This world is untruthful. Don't stop to do calculation, just keep on moving."

"Someone who normally moved so slowly, this time, for once, was long gone."

"Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor."

"In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable."

"I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African."
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"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."


"The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo."


"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."
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