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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.

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.

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

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.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

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.

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

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

The future world order is being formed before our eyes. This requires listening to everyone, taking into account every point of view, every people, culture, every system of worldviews, ideas, and religious beliefs, without imposing a single truth on anyone.

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.

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

Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.

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.

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

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 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.

I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know.

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.

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.

The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.

My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation’s history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.