It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
JAMES BALDWINHistory 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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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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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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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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