#just

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. ↗

— Carl Rogers

#am #change #curious #i #i am

To be a jazz freedom fighter is to attempt to galvanize and energize world-weary people into forms of organization with accountable leadership that promote critical exchange and broad reflection. The interplay of individuality and unity is not one of uniformity and unanimity imposed from above but rather of conflict among diverse groupings that reach a dynamic consensus subject to questioning and criticism. As with a soloist in a jazz quartet, quintet or band, individuality is promoted in order to sustain and increase the creative tension with the group--a tension that yields higher levels of performance to achieve the aim of the collective project. ↗

— Cornel West

#critical-reflection #improve #individuality #jazz #jazz-freedom-fighter

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor. ↗

— Samuel Dash

#always #assistance #been #concept #driven

Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most capitalist economies. Businesses were, so the story goes, seen as anti-social agents whose profit-seeking needed to be restrained for other, supposedly loftier, goals, such as justice, social harmony, protection of the weak and even national glory. ↗

— Ha-Joon Chang

#social-justice #business

You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#captain #driving #find #foremost #heart

Dear God, let this be just a bad nightmare. ↗

— Roy Horn

#dear #god #just #nightmare

We must ensure that today's seniors' benefits are rock solid and find a solution that fixes Social Security for the next generation that is just entering the workforce. ↗

— John Thune

#ensure #entering #find #fixes #generation

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause. ↗

— Plutarch

#cause #consists #courage #fear #just

We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world. ↗

— Noel Gallagher

#band #believe #best #just #world

I've got five kids and I'm married, Tommy's got two kids and he's been married, Vince just got married again, Mick's out of a relationship, Tommy's single as well. We've done a lot in our life, we've covered a lot of miles. ↗

— Nikki Sixx

#been #covered #done #five #got