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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.

James Baldwin

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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Children Kid School Slave Smart Teaching
People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Light People Treat Trust
Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Black Black Lives Matter Education White
Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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Born Cease Generation Responsible Witness
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
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
Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Colour Human Naked Sex
Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Indispensable Literature One Liner World
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Children Imitate Listen Parents
Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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Believe Deserve Desire Dreamss Event Love Wish
Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Country Humour Love One Liner
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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Absolute Inspirational Limitation Success
History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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Happen History Million Past People
The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
JAMES BALDWIN

According Change People Person Reality World
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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Destroy Failure Hate Hatred Law Man
Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Beginning Conscience Development Society War Yourself
There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Absolute Desolation Fear One Liner Splendor
For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Children Inspirational Pay Profit
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
No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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DAngry Heart Imagination Purity
If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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Concept God Love Religion Time Validity
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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Breakup World Change Identity Real Safety
People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Disappointment Hurt Limb Love Mercy People
You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Black Black Lives Matter Born Emotional Face Reason Sad
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Book Pain Read
If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Deep Insult One Liner Person Respect Treat
You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Home Leave Pain Suffering

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