#disc

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse. ↗

— Cornel West

#brown #catastrophe #complex #discourse #ghettos

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#camps #concentration #die #discovered #everyone

Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals. ↗

— Simon Wiesenthal

#criminals #discovering #important #just #witnesses

We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams. ↗

— Lenny Wilkens

#discourage #dreaming #never #people #should

My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#am #anything #develop #discipline #distinguishes

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. ↗

— Edwin Percy Whipple

#cheerfulness #discipline #most #people #result

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star. ↗

— Barry White

#art form #beautiful #beautiful art #because #better

When a person is evoked for who she is, not who she is not, the most often result will be the inner healing of her heart through the touch of affirmation. Jesus said you are to love one another as I have loved you, a love that will possibly lead to the bloody, anguish gift of yourself, a love that forgives seven times seven, that keeps no record of wrong. This is the criterion, sole norm, the standard of discipleship in the New Israel of God. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#forgiveness

I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#being #bishop #both #celebrate #challenge

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#always #art #beautiful #disclosure #itself