The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
JAMES BALDWINThose who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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