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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

A language is not just words. It’s a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It’s all embodied in a language.

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother’s Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture’s bad people and behavior.

We are a culture of people who’ve bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won’t catch up with us.

Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.

As the economy unravels, as hundreds of millions of Americans confront the fact that things will not get better, life for those targeted by this culture of hate will become increasingly difficult. Rational debate will prove useless.

Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.

Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people’s history and a determinant of history.

No matter what culture you’re from, everyone loves music.

Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is not proved by color, but by the brain, by education, by willpower, by moral courage.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Black culture is cool, but black issues sure aren’t, huh?

A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.

Cancel culture is all over the mainstream. It goes on all the time. That’s standard mainstream establishment behavior. People of the left are making a serious mistake when they try to imitate it.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

You know, if people are not pacifists, it’s not their fault. It’s because society puts them in that spot. You’ve got to change it. You don’t just change a man – you’ve got to change his environment as you do it.

Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that’s not comfortable for the average person.

The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.

The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.

The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.

In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered.

I’m part of the consumer culture. I was part of the baby boom generation. I have a car when I shouldn’t, a couple of computers; I can’t be anti-consumerist in that sense.

Like a lot of people, I had this naive hope that Barack Obama would fix everything quickly. You know, the culture of celebrity in this country leads us away from democratic ways of thinking and into this hero worship.

And so of course, one man cannot swoop in and fix everything on his own. It’s much more complicated and difficult than that, and progressives in this country since then have had to come to terms with the fact that we need to do more than actually get out of our house and vote. It’s an ongoing process to turn the tide.

I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.

We were badly held back not just by the technology, but by the culture of journalism.