Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
BENJAMIN SPOCKWhen women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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Don’t worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.
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Sex education, including its spiritual aspects, should be part of a broad health and moral education from kindergarten through grade twelve, ideally carried out harmoniously by parents and teachers.
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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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I’m not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.
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If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.
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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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Don’t take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don’t be overawed by what the experts say. Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.
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The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships.
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
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