"Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have been created for togetherness, and what drives us apart is greed, lust for power, and a sense of exclusion, but those are aberrations."

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Source : Source: reflections.yale.edu

Allan Boesak

#Philosophy Quotes #Fall Quotes #Biblical Quotes

“Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks.”
“I don't think many kids question their surroundings. Everything seems so permanent and inevitable growing up, even chaos.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“We been on the road for 18 hours... I need a bath, some chow... and then you and me sit down, and we talk about who dies,eh?”
“The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.”
“HIV brings out the best and the worst in humanity, and the laws reflect these attitudes.”
“I am a babe for a living.”
“Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.”
“Would it be possible for me to see something from up there?" asked Milo politely. "You could," said Alec, "but only if you try very hard to look at things as an adult does." Milo tried as hard as he could, and, as he did, his feet floated slowly off the ground until he was standing in the air next to Alex Bings. He looked around very quickly and, an instant later, crashed back down to the earth again. "Interesting, wasn't it?" asked Alex. "Yes, it was," agreed Milo, rubbing his head and dusting himself off, "but I think I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.”

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