It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
JAMES BALDWINPlease 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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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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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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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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