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“If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.”
Source : Bayard Rustin (2012). “I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters”, p.366, City Lights Publishers
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“History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern period has broadened the struggle in a revolutionary way. Man now seeks to understand, and act on, not only his environment, but himself; and this has added, so to speak, a new dimension to reason and a new dimension to history.”
Source : Edward Hallett Carr, Robert William Davies (1986). “What is history?: the George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961”
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“There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven...”
Source : Song: Holes To Heaven, Album: On And On
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“Humans are the only animals that draw. . . . Practically every human being draws at some time in childhood.”
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“One important thing I take away daily is that for all the talk about what youth are not doing - especially young people of color - I know there are many who do care about their future, who are striving to affect their world in a positive way.”
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“It's a funny thing, in the US we all believe that we have a right to go to school. We have a right to a good education. And we don't. The U.S. Constitution contains no right for a child to go to school, let alone for a child to go to a good school. And yet, we know that if they don't go to a good school, they're less likely to be able to realize all that this country has to offer.”
Source : Source: bigthink.com
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“Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.”
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“Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.”
