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| a5324ba | We cannot address the place we find ourselves because we will not acknowledge the road that brought us here. Our failure to confront the historical truth about how African Americans finally won their freedom presents a major obstacle to genuine racial reconciliation. | Timothy B. Tyson | ||
| 582d9e0 | It was like watching a community you thought you knew reveal itself as something else. | community | Timothy B. Tyson | |
| 95412aa | That we not become prejudiced against those are prejudiced, or whose prejudices. May no be our own. | Timothy B. Tyson | ||
| c2db51d | Emmett Till's death was an extreme example of the logic of America's national racial caste system. To look beneath the surface of these facts is to ask ourselves what our relationship is today to the legacies of that caste system - legacies that still end the lives of young African Americans for no reason other than the color of their American skin and the content of our national character. Recall that Faulkner, asked to comment on the Till.. | Timothy B. Tyson | ||
| a1c7e35 | When we blame those who brought about the brutal murder of Emmett Till, we have to count President Eisenhower, who did not consider the national honor at stake when white Southerners prevented African Americans from voting; who would not enforce the edicts of the highest court in the land, telling Chief Justice Earl Warren, 'All [opponents of desegregation] are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit .. | Timothy B. Tyson | ||
| 478342d | A local white bootlegger, idling under the store awning, accosted Major Stem. "Why'd you call that damned nigger woman 'Mrs. Shaw'?" he demanded. In those days, white Southerners did not use courtesy titles for their black neighbors. While it was permissible to call a favored black man "Uncle" or "Professor"--a mixture of affection and mockery--he must never hear the words "mister" or "sir." Black women were "girls" until they were old enou.. | Timothy B. Tyson | ||
| c43f067 | He held his ground like a sweet gum stump trying hard to live in a spirit of love and action, not anger and reaction | Timothy B. Tyson | ||
| df4b4b2 | South where I grew up. In large measure, this reflected a racial and gender caste system that denied most other opportunities to African American women. That system was designed to ensure a ready supply of cheap black labor, especially for the Southern ruling classes that emerged out of slavery's old planter class. But the privilege of exploiting black labor extended even to fairly lowly whites; textile mill hands and poor farmers, for exam.. | Timothy B. Tyson | ||
| 47e0456 | fwD` ydh `l~ ktfy wql: nk mndh lywm hdh stHb hdh lkhrwf 'kthr mn jmy` lkhrf fy qTy`k, l'nh kn Dlan fwjd | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 6921450 | Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan (2004), biographers of de Kooning, say that he was caught up in the excitement of the American century and felt he needed to seize the day. They write: Excavation was first and foremost an excavation of desire. The body was always turning up in the paint, evocatively, but could never be held for long in the eye: the flesh could never be entirely possessed. Any more settled description of the body would have dim.. | Eric R. Kandel | ||
| d1f269d | Everything is linked,' said an enraptured Baremboim on stage; 'everyone is linked, all our actions have ramifications, and music is a teacher of this interconnected reality.' There was, however, in the letter a mundane, prosaic footnote that nibbled at the very edges of possible understanding, since understanding must always be preceded by human curiosity. Perhaps it will vanish in the charged space between one suicide bomber and the next m.. | music peace understanding | Wole Soyinka | |
| b55cd85 | Pozvoliu sebe skazat', chto ne vizhu osoboi vrazhdebnosti mezhdu vami. -- Eto zhe i est' tsivilizatsiia. My vse tut ochen' tsivilizovannye. | Wole Soyinka | ||
| c30de86 | In one form or the other, the quest for human dignity has proved to be one of the most propulsive elements for wars, civil strife and willing sacrifice. Yet the entitlement to dignity, enshrined among the 'human rights', does not aspire to being the most self-evident, essential need for human survival, such as food, or physical health. Compared to that other candidate for the basic impulse of human existence - self-preservation - it may eve.. | existence human-rights self-preservation | Wole Soyinka | |
| 44b304f | the very least we can live with is an agreement that does not reduce us to slaves of imposition, but makes us partners of consent. Yes, we are compelled to make peace, we submit to force majeure, but leave us at least a piece of clothing to cover our nudity. This is the motivation behind every formula of diplomatic contrivance that is sometimes described as face-saving, and wise indeed is the victor who knows that, in order to shield his ow.. | dignity diplomacy | Wole Soyinka | |
| 2c0b284 | A tiger does not proclaim its tigritude. It pounces. --Wole Soyinka, Sub-Saharan Africa's first Nobel Laureate | Nnedi Okorafor | ||
| eeb4700 | Competitiveness is far more about doing what customers value than doing what you think you're good at. And | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 9832c26 | this is a serious development for our medical training establishment is that a host of technological enablers will fuel the disruption of specialists by primary care physicians in the future. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 0fdb0b9 | Watching how customers actually use a product provides much more reliable information than can be gleaned from a verbal interview or a focus group. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| a07833f | if our ward and stake leaders were to focus on leading their members to share the gospel, many of the other problems that fester in our hearts and homes, and in our wards and stakes, would resolve themselves through the blessings that come from accepting the call that God has given each of us to be missionaries. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| fb90f8b | Sound managerial decisions are at the very root of their impending fall from industry leadership. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 0cf7245 | But was the Newton a failure? The timing of Newton's entry into the handheld market was akin to the timing of the Apple II into the desktop market. It was a market-creating, disruptive product targeted at an undefinable set of users whose needs were unknown to either themselves or Apple. On that basis, Newton's sales should have been a pleasant surprise to Apple's executives: It outsold the Apple II in its first two years by a factor of mor.. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| fad499f | Here's one example to illustrate the point. When a smoker takes a cigarette break, on one level he's simply seeking the nicotine his body craves. That's the functional dimension. But that's not all that's going on. He's hiring cigarettes for the emotional benefit of calming him down, relaxing him. And if he works in a typical office building, he's forced to go outside to a designated smoking area. But that choice is social, too--he can take.. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 3dd3a79 | Much of the ability to create and maintain valuable brands, as a consequence, has migrated away from the product and to the channel because, for the present, it is the channel that addresses the piece of added value that is not yet good enough. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 7f3f0c7 | American Girl dolls are nice. But they aren't amazing. In recent years Toys" R" Us, Walmart, and even Disney have all tried to challenge American Girl's success with similar dolls (Journey Girls, My Life, and Princess & Me)--at a fraction of the price--but to date, no one has made a dent. American Girl is able to command a premium price because it's not really selling dolls. It's selling an experience. When you see a company that has a prod.. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| f6dcbda | But if anyone believes that he is working harder but is being paid less than another person, it would be like transplanting cancer into this company. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 58d464f | With few exceptions, the only instances in which mainstream firms have successfully established a timely position in a disruptive technology were those in which the firms' managers set up an autonomous organization charged with building a new and independent business around the disruptive technology. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 0c19662 | Keeping high-volume procedures within general hospitals allows hospitals to subsidize the unique, low-volume specialized capabilities that are so central to the value proposition of their solution shops- being able to diagnose and embark on a therapy for anything that might be wrong. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 2da4488 | Focus is scary--until you realize that it only means turning your back on markets you could never have anyway. Sharp focus on jobs that customers are trying to get done holds the promise of greatly improving the odds of success in new-product development. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 16fc036 | An organization's capabilities reside in two places. The first is in its processes--the methods by which people have learned to transform inputs of labor, energy, materials, information, cash, and technology into outputs of higher value. The second is in the organization's values, which are the criteria that managers and employees in the organization use when making prioritization decisions. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| c088183 | Creating the right experiences and then integrating around them to solve a job, is critical for competitive advantage. That's because while it may be easy for competitors to copy products, it's difficult for them to copy experiences that are well integrated into your company's processes. But to do all this well takes a holistic | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 81d2c84 | Disruptive technologies bring to a market a very different value proposition than had been available previously. Generally, disruptive technologies underperform established products in mainstream markets. But they have other features that a few fringe (and generally new) customers value. Products based on disruptive technologies are typically cheaper, simpler, smaller, and, frequently, more convenient to use. There | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 04dc500 | The key point here is that large companies typically fail at disruptive innovation because the top management team is dominated by individuals who have been selected for delivery skills, not discovery skills. As a result, most executives at large organizations don't know how to think different. It isn't something that they learn within their company, and it certainly isn't something they are taught in business school. Business schools teach.. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| fcb25e0 | the breakthrough researcher first discovers the fundamental causal mechanism behind the phenomena of success. This allows those who are looking for "an answer" to get beyond the wings-and-feathers mind-set of copying the attributes of successful companies." | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| dd430c5 | Research suggests that in over 90 percent of all successful new businesses, historically, the strategy that the founders had deliberately decided to pursue was not the strategy that ultimately led to the business's success. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 7d19d69 | What are the assumptions that have to prove true in order for me to be able to succeed in this assignment? | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 58e2e61 | When my invitation centered on how the Church would interest them, Tom wasn't interested. But when I asked for help, Tom said, "Sure." He and his wife have become wonderful members of our ward." | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 20b7968 | The theory of motivation suggests you need to ask yourself a different set of questions than most of us are used to asking. Is this work meaningful to me? Is this job going to give me a chance to develop? Am I going to learn new things? Will I have an opportunity for recognition and achievement? Am I going to be given responsibility? These are the things that will truly motivate you. Once you get this right, the more measurable aspects of y.. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 6ca196a | We adhere to the saying, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," while not really questioning whether "it" is "broke." | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| de61722 | They must be plans for learning rather than plans for implementation. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 9585061 | They started with Big Ben. It's always got to be relayed direct from Westminster, the real thing, never from disc. That's got to be firmly fixed in the listeners' minds. Then, if Big Ben is silent, the public will know that the war has taken a distinctly unpleasant turn. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| 7632817 | The barge anchors were unrecognisable as such, more like crustaceans, specimens of some giant type long since discarded by Nature, but still clinging to their old habitat, sunk in the deep pits they had made in the foreshore. But under the ground they were half rusted away. Dreadnought's anchor had come up easily enough when the salvage tug came to dispose of her. The mud which held so tenaciously could also give way in a moment, if conditi.. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| 1dd1441 | I enjoy very little leisure in the evenings. But don't misunderstand me, I find a good book at my bedside of incalculable value. When I eventually retire I've no sooner read a few pages than I'm overwhelmed with sleep. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| e77da6e | se habia enganado a si misma al dejarse convencer, por un momento, de que los seres humanos no se dividen en exterminadores y exterminados, y que los exterminadores tienden a colocarse en la situacion dominante en cuanto pueden. La fuerza de voluntad es inutil si no se va a algun lado. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| dba1df9 | She ought to go down to the beach. It was Thursday, early closing, and it seemed ungrateful to live so close to the sea and never look at it for weeks on end. | english-humor | Penelope Fitzgerald |