"It's unfortunate that [Louis] Brandeis was not able to translate or abstract his devotion to cultural pluralism and racial equality as he put it for Jews to enslave people and their descendants and to African Americans."

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Source : Source: www.slate.com

Jeffrey Rosen

#People Quotes #African American Quotes #Pluralism Quotes

“War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.”
“Above me I saw something I did not believe at first. Well above the haze layer of the earth's atmosphere were additonal faint thin bands of blue, sharply etched against the dark sky. They hovered over the earth like a succession of halos.”
“Nowadays this is the way everyone loves himself; people wish to live with God in consolations and repose, in wealth and power, and to share the fruition of his glory. We all indeed wish to be God with God, but God knows there are few of us who want to live as men with his Humanity, or want to carry his cross with him, or want to hang on the cross with him and pay humanity's debt to the full.”

Source : Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.61, Paulist Press
“Comcast began their tradition of volunteer service in 1997 when Comcast employees and their families participated in the Philadelphia Cares Day.”
“[I think] everybody should see a dermatologist.”

Source : "Grace And Frankie's June Diane Raphael on the joy of calling Donald Trump a 'little bitch'". Interview with Alex McLevy, tv.avclub.com. March 22, 2017.
“... as long as we go on loving and working life is worth while.”

Source : Ruth Draper, Dorothy Warren (1999). “The Letters of Ruth Draper: Self-portrait of an Actress, 1920-1956”, p.141, SIU Press
“A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.”

Source : "Errol Morris: 'The Thin Blue Line' would not have saved Randall Adams today" by Eric Kohn, www.indiewire.com. July 13, 2011.
“Educate ourselves; educate other people, the population in general, to fight fear and ignorance, to eliminate little by little the subjection to nature and natural forcesÂ which our economy has not yet mastered.”

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