Reason’s last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it,” the.

The God of the Declaration does not choose nations or peoples to favor, or others to curse.

As a rule, politicians tend to remember the things they wish to emulate or the things they hope to avoid.

Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible,” the theologian and thinker Reinhold Niebuhr wrote in 1944, “but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

It is error alone that needs the support of government.2 Truth can stand by itself. – THOMAS JEFFERSON, on freedom of religion.

Songs are the soul of movement! – MLK Jr.

All we can do is to make the best of our friends: love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the way of what is bad: but no more think of rejecting them for it than of throwing away a piece of music for a flat passage or two.

The Man who has not Music in his Soul, Or is not touch’d with Concord of sweet Sounds, Is fit for Treason, Stratagems, and Spoils, The Motions of his Mind are dull as Night, And his Affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted.

In the charged and complicated spheres of identity, politics, philosophy, and power in America, though, racism was not situational but systemic.

The demands of exercising it once it is won, however, are so complex and fluid that ideological certitude is often among the first casualties of actual governing.