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Black men are always perceived as being taller, more aggressive, or violent, more prone to conflict, more athletic than they actually are, and it's those social perceptions that have been linked to forms of dehumanization -- likening them to apes, sorts of primal beasts and animals -- that fit into how we think of Black men, both as athletes and as kind of super predators, as superhuman. – Tommy Curry	Found on CNN 2 years ago
No, there is a limit to the tyrant's power! When the oppressed man finds no justice, When the burden grows unbearable, he appeals with fearless heart to heaven, and thence brings down his everlasting rights, which there abide, inalienably his, and indestructible as stars themselves. The primal state of nature reappears, wherein man confronts his fellow man; and if all other means shall fail his need, one last resort remains—his own good sword. The dearest of our goods we may defend From violence. We stand before our country, We stand before our wives, before our children! – Friedrich Schiller	added by Normando 2 years ago
Just this primal wail came out of me, and I was like,' Where's Jordan ?' I just started screaming. Jordan's father said, he told me' Jordan is dead,' i felt like in that moment that everything I had done to protect him, it wasn't good enough. – Candidate McBath	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Hossein Soodmand represented what would ideally be a secular Iranian society wherein people could freely practice their faith. A free, secular society is the regimes primal fear. – Reza Behrouz	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Its raw, its in its primal state right now, everyone doesnt know what to expect, which is awesome. – Las Vegas	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
It's a primal need to write on walls to communicate with the people around you. – Marco Proserpio	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
When people sing back the words that you’ve written that have been so personal to you… and they sing them back with such confidence and belief, you’re like ‘Oh God I’m not alone in my own problems,’ and it makes me feel connected to humans, and at our primal state we all we want is connection. It’s the only reason that we do anything that we do. – Katy Perry	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It’s a Cromwell moment! It’s even more powerful than populism. It’s deeper. It’s primal. It’s elemental. The long black dresses and all that—this is the Puritans! It’s anti-patriarchy. – Steve Bannon	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
There’s a primal connection to our past and our placement in the universe, when the middle of the day goes dark and there’s this weird ring in the sky instead of the sun and it gets cooler and shadows are weird and silvery…It’s going to be the kind of moment to put goosebumps on your skin if you are paying attention to it. – Hudson Henry	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
And that's what signaled to me the worst had happened, there was this primal instinct in me that just said 'run,' but I knew I couldn't run because I came to 'Survivor' to confront great challenges. – Zeke Smith	Found on CNN 7 years ago
It is a primal emotion, fear, one that we all experience. And it can be contagious, spreading through societies, and through nations, for me, and I know for so many of you, faith is the great cure for fear. Jesus is a good cure for fear. God gives believers the power, the love, the sound mind required to conquer any fear. And what more important moment for that faith than right now? – Barack Obama	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Since eternity, mankind has denied what was to be deeply understood and transformed, all the emotions that were primal in one's progress in higher consciousness, was subjugated, condemned so deeply that we are still struck with basic human body, making it impossible to transcend towards self-realization. All forms of art are just devices to go within, from outer to inner journey.” – Ramana Pemmaraju	added by anonymous 8 years ago
The love thing is astonishing. It’s a very primal, primal love. That’s quite extraordinary, and the ability to have no sleep and continue going. It’s not pleasant —I never thought that I could actually do it for the amount of time that I’ve done it. – Keira Knightley	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
What though the radiance which was once so bright Be not forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;Grief not, rather find, Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of Human suffering, In the faith that looks through death In years that bring philophic mind. – William Wordsworth	added by anonymous 13 years ago
O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What though the radiance which was once so bright Be not forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of Human suffering, In the faith that looks through death In years that bring philophic mind. – William Wordsworth	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the universe and are appointed by Heaven. – I Ching	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives. – Camille Paglia	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Black men are always perceived as being taller, more aggressive, or violent, more prone to conflict, more athletic than they actually are, and it's those social perceptions that have been linked to forms of dehumanization -- likening them to apes, sorts of primal beasts and animals -- that fit into how we think of Black men, both as athletes and as kind of super predators, as superhuman.

– Tommy Curry

Found on CNN
2 years ago

No, there is a limit to the tyrant's power! When the oppressed man finds no justice, When the burden grows unbearable, he appeals with fearless heart to heaven, and thence brings down his everlasting rights, which there abide, inalienably his, and indestructible as stars themselves. The primal state of nature reappears, wherein man confronts his fellow man; and if all other means shall fail his need, one last resort remains—his own good sword. The dearest of our goods we may defend From violence. We stand before our country, We stand before our wives, before our children!

– Friedrich Schiller

added by Normando
2 years ago

Just this primal wail came out of me, and I was like,' Where's Jordan ?' I just started screaming. Jordan's father said, he told me' Jordan is dead,' i felt like in that moment that everything I had done to protect him, it wasn't good enough.

– Candidate McBath

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Hossein Soodmand represented what would ideally be a secular Iranian society wherein people could freely practice their faith. A free, secular society is the regimes primal fear.

– Reza Behrouz

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Its raw, its in its primal state right now, everyone doesnt know what to expect, which is awesome.

– Las Vegas

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It's a primal need to write on walls to communicate with the people around you.

– Marco Proserpio

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

When people sing back the words that you’ve written that have been so personal to you… and they sing them back with such confidence and belief, you’re like ‘Oh God I’m not alone in my own problems,’ and it makes me feel connected to humans, and at our primal state we all we want is connection. It’s the only reason that we do anything that we do.

– Katy Perry

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It’s a Cromwell moment! It’s even more powerful than populism. It’s deeper. It’s primal. It’s elemental. The long black dresses and all that—this is the Puritans! It’s anti-patriarchy.

– Steve Bannon

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

There’s a primal connection to our past and our placement in the universe, when the middle of the day goes dark and there’s this weird ring in the sky instead of the sun and it gets cooler and shadows are weird and silvery…It’s going to be the kind of moment to put goosebumps on your skin if you are paying attention to it.

– Hudson Henry

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

And that's what signaled to me the worst had happened, there was this primal instinct in me that just said 'run,' but I knew I couldn't run because I came to 'Survivor' to confront great challenges.

– Zeke Smith

Found on CNN
7 years ago

It is a primal emotion, fear, one that we all experience. And it can be contagious, spreading through societies, and through nations, for me, and I know for so many of you, faith is the great cure for fear. Jesus is a good cure for fear. God gives believers the power, the love, the sound mind required to conquer any fear. And what more important moment for that faith than right now?

– Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Since eternity, mankind has denied what was to be deeply understood and transformed, all the emotions that were primal in one's progress in higher consciousness, was subjugated, condemned so deeply that we are still struck with basic human body, making it impossible to transcend towards self-realization. All forms of art are just devices to go within, from outer to inner journey.”

– Ramana Pemmaraju

added by anonymous
8 years ago

The love thing is astonishing. It’s a very primal, primal love. That’s quite extraordinary, and the ability to have no sleep and continue going. It’s not pleasant —I never thought that I could actually do it for the amount of time that I’ve done it.

– Keira Knightley

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

What though the radiance which was once so bright Be not forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;Grief not, rather find, Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of Human suffering, In the faith that looks through death In years that bring philophic mind.

– William Wordsworth

added by anonymous
13 years ago

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder.

– William Shakespeare

added by anonymous
14 years ago

What though the radiance which was once so bright Be not forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of Human suffering, In the faith that looks through death In years that bring philophic mind.

– William Wordsworth

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the universe and are appointed by Heaven.

– I Ching

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

– Camille Paglia

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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