“Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens.”
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“Men don't wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.”
“I'm a very serious person.”
“The theme of corporate stories (and millions drink them in every day) seldom varies: to be happy you must consume, to be special you must conform. Absurd, obviously, yet our identities have become so fragile, so elusive, that we seem content to let advertisers provide us with their version of who we are, to let them recreate us in their image: a cookie-cutter image based on market research, shallow sociology, and insidious lies.”
“Out of the total of 11 movies, I got slammed.”
“Recollect your thoughts don't get caught up in the mix ,cause the media is full of dirty tricks.”
“And I hope I'm forgiven for Thug Livin when I die.”
“In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.”
“God damn! Drug dealers dealin' to the kiddies, Livin' in the city ain't no pity on the itty-bitty. We try to cry, but still they all die, I try to speak to the youth, and the truth is: they all high.”
“Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.”
“There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.”
“My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.”
“To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right.”
“The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.”
“The sin under all other sins is a lack of joy in Christ.”
“If Christianity is really true it will be offending and correcting you somewhere.”
“If you're avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless you and save you, then you may be looking to Jesus as a teacher, model, and helper, but ironically you are avoiding him as Savior. You are trusting in your own goodness rather than in Jesus for your standing with God.”
“In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.”
“Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.”
“Elder brothers obey God to get things. They don't obey God to get God himself — in order to resemble him, love him, know him, and delight him.”