I remember when I was in Chicago and data started coming out that when black folks walk into an auto dealership, and women, too, to some degree, they are automatically given higher quotes, worse deals. And this was just documented extensively across auto dealerships around the country. There was a tax being imposed on black folks. By collecting that data, you can construct policies to combat that.
It is remarkable how fast and how effectively you can construct a nationality with a flag , a few speeches, and a national anthem; to this day I avoid the label "Lebanese," preferring the less restrictive "Levantine" designation.
To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.
Christendom is not primarily a mental construct. It is above all a fact, indeed the longest historical experience the Church has had. Hence the deep impact it has made on its life and thought.
If people can construct a simple and coherent story, they will feel confident regardless of how well grounded it is in reality.
A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories.
We need to sacrifice something. And this is what I find lacking. We want to construct an image of ourselves as virtuous but we don't want to suffer for our beliefs. We want to change the world with a Facebook like. That's not how the world works.
There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen.
The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images. " Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second most important moral principle for all the generations of humanity?
It’s a beauty one isn’t born with, but must fight to construct at great sacrifice.