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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

James Baldwin

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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Born Change Inspirational Shock State
Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Black Black Lives Matter Education White
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Enemy Ferocious Ignorance Justice Power
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Circumstances History Myself Time
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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Earth Simplicity Sun Sunrise Sunset Time Tragic Turn
Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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Believe Endure Humanity Inferior Remember
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Bread Float Human People Poison Surprise Water
Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Children Kid School Slave Smart Teaching
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Expensive Life Poverty Struggle
We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Acceptance Commit Crime Lie
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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Bread Effort Force Life Love Present Rejoice Respect Sensual
Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Humour One Liner Reality Time Worst Youth
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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DAngry Deep Healing Lose Man Society
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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History Hurt One Liner Past People Trapped
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Attachment Condition Home One Liner Peace Place
There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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Pain People Suffering

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