It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
BENJAMIN SPOCKThe strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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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.
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All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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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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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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People have said, “You’ve turned your back on pediatrics.” I said, “No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics.”
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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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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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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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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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