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"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African."

"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."

"In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable."
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"I let myself play in an unbounded world of creations on the glorious written page whenever I desire."

"Making time to experience joy is the single most important thing you can do to heal your heart."

"Sometimes the ultimate act of self-compassion is turning off your phone and looking someone in the eye."

"I choose my reality. My vision and actions create my life. I am an amazing reality creator."

"True love begins when you accept yourself in your totality. Then, and only then, can you completely love another."
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