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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.

James Baldwin

If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Allow Citizen Destroy Permit Portion Society
Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Black Black Lives Matter Education White
Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Happiness Inspirational Joy Life Sad Sorrow Teaching Trust
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
When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Curosity Passion Peace Try Writing
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
No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Deep Devil Human Man Mind One Liner
It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Distrustful Education Freedom Impossible Independence Mind Person
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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History Hurt One Liner Past People Trapped
Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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Believe Endure Humanity Inferior Remember
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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DAngry Heart Human Imagination People Purity
There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Arrive People Perpetual World
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
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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Earth Simplicity Sun Sunrise Sunset Time Tragic Turn
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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DAngry Deep Healing Lose Man Society
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Broken Heart Heart History Pain Read Thinking World

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