Matter of life and death
byThe center’s punishment for disobedience can be crushing. What usually happens as a result is that an inordinate amount of talent, energy and time is…
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Dream deferred
by the daily asteriskWhat happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run?…
Profoundly counterintuitive
by the daily asteriskI don’t know how seriously [people who are suspicious of others not like them] do take their Christianity, because if you take something seriously, you’re…
Create space
by the daily asteriskWe’ve never said protests are the answer, but protests create space for the answer. Protest is disruption. Protest is confrontation. Protest is the end…
Within, between, and across
by the daily asteriskAs much of the urban sociology literature argues, the neighborhood is a critically important place for marginalized groups. Concepts such as place attachment and…
Untamed open space
by the daily asteriskThe more I read, the more I felt connected across time to other lives and deeper sympathies. I felt less isolated. I wasn’t floating…
Take responsibility
by the daily asteriskRadicals don’t take responsibility for this society because it is a capitalist society, an enemy society. They never learn what it is to practice…
Communicate effectively
by the daily asteriskOften, educators and politicians speak and are not understood because their language is not attuned to the concrete situation of the people they address….
Hate begets hate
by the daily asteriskThe use of violence in our struggle would be both impractical and immoral. To meet hate with retaliatory hate would do nothing but intensify…
We don’t exist
by the daily asteriskWith small towns shrinking and services eroding, many Dakotans retain an appalling innocence about what it means to be rural in contemporary America. The…