“When you say that [Martin Luther] King was a prophet, you don't say that he predicted anything; you say that he bore witness. He left a committed life so that people would never forget the suffering of people that he was connected to. King was prophetic because he lived a committed life. Now he did critique society, saying you're going to go under if you don't treat your poor right. I mean, that is part of prophetic calling, but it's not predicting anything.” PeopleIfsMeanSufferingLeftForgetPoorKingsCallingTreatsCommittedConnectedWitnessProphetNever ForgetBoresLutherCritiquePropheticPredicting Author:Cornel West
“Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one.” IfsMindBelieveLeftImaginationRoomsQualityProofWitnessSensualSkepticismDefectsDubiousScepticism Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“For twenty-seven years I was witness to the spiritual deterioration of my own father, watching day after day how everything human in him left him and how gradually he turned into a grim monument to his own self.” YearsHumansSelfSpiritualFatherLeftMy OwnTwentiesSevenRussiaWitnessSeven YearsMonumentGrimDeterioration Book:Only One Year Source: Only One Year