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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 Spock

I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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Being Bad Caught
Boys and girls need chances to be around their father, to be enjoyed by him and if possible to do things with him. Better to play fifteen minutes enjoyably and then say, ‘Now I’m going to read my paper’ than to spend all day at the zoo crossly.
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Father Girl Possible Zoos
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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Education Sex Spiritual Teacher
I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.
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Occupation Trying Women
I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
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Dignity Husband Love Marriage
I really learned it all from mothers.
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Day Mom Mother
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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Baby Children Mother
It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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Children Helping World
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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Happiness Inspirational Positive
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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Children Parent Punishment
A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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Satisfaction Selfish Successful
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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Children Funny Mother
I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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Problem Realization Spiritual
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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Baby Vietnam War
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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Long People Strong
It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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Count Music
In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.
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Believe Children Country
Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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Children Home Husband
Children who grow up getting nutrition from plant foods rather than meats have a tremendous health advantage. They are less likely to develop weight problems, diabetes, high blood pressure and some forms of cancer
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Cancer Children Grow Up
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Children Dad Parenting
I love to dance and I’d love to be saying goodbye to my friends while the band was playing and they were dancing…I want them to remember I was a dancing man in my day.
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Dance Goodbye Men
If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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Children Quality Wish
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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May Quiet Teamwork
Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Common Sense
It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…
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Men President United States
Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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Essence Mean Time
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Disagreeable Encouraged Many People

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