“A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.” StatesArtistSufferingEnergyDivineSourceNakedArtisticTensionGreat ArtDiscontentGreat ArtistDisequilibrium Book:Truth and Fantasy from My Life Source: Truth and Fantasy from My Life
“Even healthy families need outside sources of moral guidance to keep those tensions from imploding--and this means, among other things, a public philosophy of gender equality and concern for child welfare. When instead the larger culture aggrandizes wife beaters, degrades women or nods approvingly at child slappers, the family gets a little more dangerous for everyone, and so, inevitably, does the larger world.” WorldNeedsMeanChildrenLittlesDoePhilosophyCultureMoralWifeDangerousSourceHealthyConcernGenderWelfareGuidanceTensionGender EqualityDegradeHealthy FamilySlappers Author:Barbara Ehrenreich
“The criminal-justice system is, obviously, the sole source of racial tension in this country [USA] or the key institution to resolving the opportunity gap. It is a part of the broader set of challenges that we face in creating a more perfect union.” CountryFacesOpportunityChallengesJusticePerfectSourceKeysCreatingInstitutionsUnionsCriminalsUsaTensionGapsSoleJustice SystemCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice SystemRacial Tension Author:Barack Obama
“Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a straightforward development from the primitive community in Jerusalem founded on Pentecost to the world-wide mission of Paul climaxing with his arrival in Rome, the political centre of the Greco-Roman world. The Pauline epistles are understood not so much as historical sources reflecting a much more multifaceted early Christian situation fraught with tensions but as theological treatises expounding and defending the doctrine of justification by faith.” WorldChristianPoliticalUnderstandingCommunitySituationSourceDevelopmentUnderstoodHistoricalMissionsDeterminedWideDoctrineTensionRomeJustificationPrimitiveCentreReflectingApostlesStraightforwardTheologicalArrivalsJerusalemPentecostJustification By Faith Author:Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
“The pioneer labor historian John Commons was not wrong when he wrote around World War One that exploiting and deepening such tensions as outpacing scientific management among U.S. innovations where bossing was concerned. Amidst the general miseries of proletarianization, workers also learned that one source of meager benefits and protections could lie in claiming a white skin.” WorldWarLyingWhiteSourceBenefitsConcernedLaborSkinsInnovationManagementMiseryWorkersProtectionWar Of The WorldsTensionHistorianPioneersWorld War OneWhite Skin Author:David Roediger
“As long as colonialism was allowed to reign and fester in Africa, it was going to be a source of tension, if not war, as was evidenced by World War I itself, which, among other things, featured Germany on one side of the barricades and Britain, which had come earlier to the table of colonial plunder, on the other.” IfsWorldLongWarSidesSourceTablesWar Of The WorldsTensionGermanyBritainWorld War IColonialismReignPlunderBarricades Author:Gerald Horne
“Elements within Malcolm's X own entourage, some of them were very angry with some of the changes that had occurred with Malcolm. One source of anger, curiously enough, was that - was the tension between MMI and OAAU, that the MMI, the Muslim Mosque Incorporated, these were women and men who had left the Nation of Islam out of loyalty to Malcolm, but then Malcolm continued to evolve rapidly.” MenEnoughLeftNationsSourceElementsMen And WomenAngryIslamLoyaltyEvolveTensionMosquesEntourageNation Of Islam Author:Manning Marable