"White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history."

-- Michael Kimmel

#Men Quotes #White Quotes #America Quotes

“Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.”
“There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before dealing with the concrete lineaments of how we happen exist in this time and place. We are participants in a dynamic system and we know its profile only by its action in organizing how we interact together and how we see our own selves. "The truth is the whole," and the whole is a system of living energy: our life as human and historical spirits.”
“When the clouds clear we shall know the colour of the sky”

Source : Keorapetse Kgositsile (2002). “If I could sing: selected poems”
“Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack; But those behind cried "Forward!" And those before cried "Back!”
“India seeks to be a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council... things like this don't happen automatically, you need constant dialogue and discussion with the world.”
“One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.”
“Well, you may not know this, but there's things that gnaw at a man worse than dying.”
“It’s not just about being against cruelty. It’s about being for compassion.”

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