I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
JAMES BALDWINIf 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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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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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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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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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