Radical Quotes - Page 5

• Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a choice that shouldn't be. The heart of radical feminism is to change that

  Vivian Gornick

  Heart, Radical Feminism, Choices

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• The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Memories, Book, Law

  "Commentaries For A New American Passover Seder, Jonathan Safran Foer Presents New Haggadah", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2012.

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• It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe - the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor - loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss.

  Francis Chan

  Song, Crazy, Sacrifice

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.2, David C Cook

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• John Boehner has to start taking a macro step towards the American people, away from the more radical elements of his party. You know, it's almost a form of anarchy. We have a law that was passed by Congress. We have a law that the Supreme Court said was legal. It's been implemented. And I'm sorry they don't like it. There's been a lot of laws in the past the Democrats didn't like. But that's what this country is about. You pass laws. And if they are deemed legal, you respect them and you move forward.

  Howard Bragman

  Country, Sorry, Party

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• It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Down And, Quiet, Acts Of Love

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.

  Paul Weyrich

  Enemy, Faces, Conflict

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• Conservatives are people who worship at the graves of dead radicals. Stop to think about that. The people who started this country, George Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, these were not conservatives; these were the radicals of the time. In fact, conservatives always look back on people who they despised and make them into heroes. If you were to listen to the religious right today, they would make you believe that Martin Luther King was one of their flock. In reality, they hated him and did everything they could to destroy him.

  Tony Campolo

  Country, Religious, Kings

  "Meet Evangelist Tony Campolo" by John Oliver Mason, progressive.org. August 5, 2005.

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• Patrick Cheng's Radical Love is not only an excellent introduction to LGBT theology but an important contribution to the discipline of theology and the life of the church. It is a must read for anyone who cares about the health of the church and theology today.

  James H. Cone

  Love Is, Discipline, Important

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• I met the Radicals and we liked each other reciprocally.

  Emma Bonino

  Mets

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• The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Advancement, Radical Change, Persecution

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• I know all the new phrases: 'cowabunga,' 'radical,' cat's pajamas,' 'duh,' and 'hey, homie don't play that.

  Si Robertson

  Cat, Play, Duh

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• Without love even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sinks in… You can gain all the spiritual gifts in the world. You can take the most radical steps of obedience. You can share every meal with the homeless in your city. You can memorize the book of Leviticus. You can pray each morning for four hours like Martin Luther. But if what you do does not flow out of a heart of love - a heart that does those things because it genuinely desires to do them - it is ultimately worthless to God.

  J. D. Greear

  Spiritual, Morning, Book

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• Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as absent, as dead, although it is still present - but above all in the sense of its radical dissection: the word 'quarters' the thing, it tears it out of the embedment in its concrete context, it treats its component parts as entities with an autonomous existence: we speak about color, form, shape, etc., as if they possessed self-sufficient being.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Self, Color, Tears

  Slavoj Žižek (2001). “Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out”, p.51, Psychology Press

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• This historic Christian doctrine of the divinity of Christ does not simply mean that Jesus is like God.
  It is far more radical than that. It means that God is like Jesus.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Christian, Jesus, Mean

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• So we must realize this: the suicidal framing story that dominates our world today has no power except the power we give it by believing it. Similarly, believing an alternative and transforming framing story may turn out to be the most radical thing any of us can ever do.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Believe, Suicidal, Our World

  Brian D. McLaren (2009). “Everything Must Change: When the World's Biggest Problems and Jesus' Good News Collide”, p.270, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• At some point we must realize that actively defending against radical Islamic teachings is not a matter of cultural relativity. It is a matter of universally recognized human rights.

  Armstrong Williams

  Teaching, Islamic, Rights

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• You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Speaks Out, Mind, Weakness

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This attitude breeds both the arrogance of the conservative and the bitterness of the radical.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Attitude, Believe, Men

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do.

  Timothy Keller

  Bible, Christian, Religious

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.22, Penguin

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• Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.

  Mason Cooley

  Views, Turkeys, History

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• The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society.

  Manning Marable

  Use, Hierarchy, Conservative

  Manning Marable (1980). “From the grassroots: essays toward Afro-American liberation”

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• The radical intelligence in the moderate position is the only place where the center holds. Or so it seems.

  Renata Adler

  Position, Seems, Moderates

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.41, New York Review of Books

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• The Clash were innovative, radical and helped drive a change in music that was ground-breaking. In comparison to some of the music today they sounded like they meant it. I still listen to their music today to remind myself what music made with commitment sounds like.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Commitment, Today, Sound

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• I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my great-grandparents were victims of the Great Hunger of the 1840's, even though I was named Thomas Emmet Hayden IV after the radical Irish nationalist exile Thomas Emmet, my inheritance was to be disinherited. My parents knew nothing of this past, or nothing worth passing on.

  Tom Hayden

  Home, Past, Passing On

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• Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Teaching, Home, Adventure

  "I Quit, I Think," The Wall Street Journal, en.wikiquote.org. July 25, 1991.

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