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“In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in various ways, God calls us to wake up and learn how to love and respect one another, period.”

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Carter Heyward

Carter Heyward, born in 1945, is an enigmatic figure whose profession and category remain unknown. more

“If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another accept the fact that we who are christian are heirs to a body-despising, woman-fearing, sexually repressive religious tradition. If we are to continue as members of the church, we must challenge and transform it at the root. What is required is more than simply a "reformation." I am speaking of revolutionary transformation. Nothing less will do.”

Source: Touching Our Strength: The Erotic as Power and the Love of God

“Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.”

Kind Young Justice Teacher Teaching Diversity Social Justice Experts Pupils Beginners

Book:THE ART OF TEACHING

Source: THE ART OF TEACHING

“Our highest ambition is to be included in the stream of American life, to be permitted to "play the game" as any other American; and is opposed to anything that aids in the exclusion; the face may be Africa, but the heart has the beat of Wall Street.”

Heart May Play Faces Games Justice Streets Wall Ambition Diversity Highest Beats Social Justice Aids Streams Exclusion American Life

Author:Chester Himes

“To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.”

Soul Action Justice Diversity Social Justice Upset Equilibrium Flailing

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions.”

Justice Diversity Perception Social Justice Complexes Corners Authenticity Imaginary Sophisticated Savages Sufferers

Author:Eva Hoffman

“If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.”

Ifs May Moments Happiness Waiting Perfect Race Safe Mountain Safety Mental Health Live Life Lasting Assured Arrivals Perfect Moments Lasting Happiness

Author:Maurice Chevalier

“It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land, respects these very things about Indian traditions, without adopting those respected ways themselves.”

Way Spirit Culture Justice Land Strange Diversity Tradition Social Justice Absence Indian Attachment Adopting

Author:Linda Hogan

“If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as this awkward historical fact.”

Ifs Facts Would Be Christian Remember Jesus Justice Diversity Ordinary Social Justice Historical Jew Dislike Awkward Anti Semitism Historical Facts

Author:John Haynes Holmes

“We're no longer arguing about riding in the back of the bus, but being the bus driver or the president of the bus company. We're not pushing for the right to buy the hot dog, but selling the hot dog and the right to own the hot dog franchise.”

President Justice Company Dog Diversity Hot Social Justice Arguing Selling Pushing Drivers Bus Riding Hot Dog Bus Driver

Author:Benjamin Hooks

“The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to get your kids born into wealthier families. You know, it's great to tell kids to pull themselves up by their own boot straps, but you better put boots on them first.”

Ifs Knows Want Needs Firsts Kids Born Justice Higher Diversity Social Justice Income Sat Score Boots Variables Sat Scores

Author:Paul Houston

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