"It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the time he wins them, they are no longer little things: they are miracles."

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Source : Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.246, New York Review of Books

Murray Kempton

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“Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is the Bible greatly wronged. It nowhere lays claim to be regarded as the Word, the Way, the Truth. The Bible leads us to Jesus, the inexhaustible, the ever-unfolding Revelation of God. It is Christ "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge," not the Bible, save as leading to Him.”

Source : George MacDonald (2016). “Unspoken Sermons, completed: MacDonald's Works”, p.26, VM eBooks
“I love engaging with the fans. It's fun.”

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“What is there about the notion of a person, at law, that makes every living member of the species Homo sapiens a person, irrespective of their mental capacities, but excludes every nonhuman animal - again, irrespective of their mental capacities?”
“I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.”
“I act irrationally, I defy the odds, I engage when others would run. I look for trouble, I seek chaos, it is a burden.”
“Entering Malibu, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia and long lost sadness, like seeing a home I had left a long time ago and had returned to.”
“The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those youâ€™re going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins.”
“It took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.”

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