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“To talk about race, you have to talk about your differences. To talk about race, you have to talk about, to some degree, deconstructing the myth of the melting pot, which has never fundamentally been true. To admit that a big part of our history has been plunderous and violent and rigged against people of color. We’re ashamed of our collective guilt. We would have to admit and to grieve for what’s been done. We would have to acknowledge our own daily complicity, and to acknowledge that we are tied to the history of racism.”
― Renegades: Born in the USA
― Renegades: Born in the USA
“If a person does not become what he understands, then he does not understand it either.”
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“My life is utterly meaningless”
― The Essential Kierkegaard
― The Essential Kierkegaard
“let us speak of the wish and thereby of the sufferings; let us properly linger over this, convinced that one may learn more profoundly and more reliably what the highest is by considering suffering than by observing achievements, where so much that is distracting is present.”
― Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing
― Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing
“A grim pattern is visible in history: When religion is the ruling force in a society, it produces horror. The stronger the supernatural beliefs, the worse the inhumanity. A culture dominated by intense faith invariably is cruel to people who don't share the faith--and sometimes to many who do.”
― Holy Horrors: An Illustrated History of Religious Murder and Madness
― Holy Horrors: An Illustrated History of Religious Murder and Madness
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