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“I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.”

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Allan Boesak

Allan Boesak, born on February 23, 1945, is a prominent South African politician. He actively participated in the anti-apartheid movement during the apartheid era and made significant contributions in both academic and political fields. more

“If your starting point for understanding humanity is a racialist viewpoint, with superiority and inferiority projected onto people because of the color of their skin, then it's so easy to take the next step of justifying that point theologically and reading it into the Christian scripture. And that makes it harder to understand what scripture is actually saying!”

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Author:Allan Boesak

“I believe scripture is not just resilient but rebellious against its abuse by people. Scripture says it refuses to be used in that way for long. That is why the gospel that has been used by the oppressors is the same gospel that liberated the oppressed: They were reading the same book. Something in the DNA of Christian faith and in the Bible agitates against that kind of misuse.”

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Author:Allan Boesak

“The fundamentalists may have created a personalized Jesus we don't even recognize, but the liberals' Jesus, too, is an individualized Jesus who serves the empire - a Jesus painfully divorced from his ministry of justice.”

May Jesus Justice Empires Ministry Divorced Personalized

Author:Allan Boesak

“I've been a politician and so I'm sometimes cynical about what politicians won't do. When I hear a politician say something that makes no sense whatsoever, I think there's one of two things there: There's money or the promise of money.”

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Author:Allan Boesak

“Ordinary people - churches, too - have a role to force politicians to respond. Governments are not impressed with theories, but governments are impressed with people who change their minds about things.”

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Author:Allan Boesak

“Graphic design was largely about communication in an artistic or creative manner, much like writing is used to convey ideas. Many designers completely miss that aspect of the "art." Some are completely satisfied with just making things pretty, without taking the communication element into consideration.”

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Author:Jeff Fisher

“The phrase "corporate identity design" seems to be a bit exclusive it sometimes frightens the smaller client who can't relate because they don't consider themselves "corporate."”

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Author:Jeff Fisher

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