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Or those who still believe that language is ‘only words’ and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.

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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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That’s why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone.
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When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors.
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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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