Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
JAMES BALDWINIf you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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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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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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