"A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills"

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Amiri Baraka

#People Quotes #Social Quotes #Cures Quotes

“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Theology recognizes the contingency of human existence only to derive it from a necessary being, that is, to remove it. Theology makes use of philosophical wonder only for the purpose of motivating an affirmation which ends it. Philosophy, on the other hand, arouses us to what is problematic in our own existence and in that of the world, to such a point that we shall never be cured of searching for a solution.”
“Mothers tend to encourage their sons to run away and romp.... Mothers of little boys often complain that "There's no controlling him." "He's all over the place...." The complaints are tinged with more than a little pride at the boy's marvelous independence and masculine bravado. It's almost as though the mother enjoyed being overwhelmed by her spectacular conquering hero.”
“The whole thing about bullying is: yes, the culture has to change. Yes, teens have the power to change it. Itâ€™s not going to happen overnight, but this is definitely something that I want to start motivating teens to do today." - Publisher Weekly”
“Trying to find a human side to the character is a way to give them a chance to have people like them.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Humility is royalty without a crown.”
“There were definitely Nazis who saw the error of their ways.”
“The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean.”

Source : Timothy Morton (2012). “The Ecological Thought”, p.139, Harvard University Press

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