For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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