A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.
Interpretation
A society that embraces diversity requires understanding its history and having open conversations.
Cornel West emphasizes that achieving a truly functional multiracial society is contingent upon acknowledging and understanding its historical context. Moreover, it necessitates open and honest dialogues among different races, allowing for a genuine exchange of experiences and perspectives that can foster mutual respect and unity.
In practice
In a community meeting discussing racial equality, one might say, 'A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.'
King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.
You've got to love yourself enough, not only so that others will be able to love you, but that you'll be able to love others.
Profound music leads us beyond language...to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
And when I talk about love, I'm talking about something that's great, though, brother. I'm talking about something that will sustain you.
Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.
I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from 'gangster' to 'redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.'
You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.
Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples.
In the name of what - except perhaps the coefficient of rarity - does man adorn himself with necklaces of shells and not spider's webs, with fox fur and not fox innards? In the name of what I don't know. Don't dirt, trash and filth, which are man's companions during his whole lifetime, deserve to be dearer to him and isn't it serving him well to remind him of their beauty?
Non-violence is a permanent attitude we bring to the breakfast table and bring to bed at night.
Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.
Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.