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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.

Margaret Mead

There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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Elder Experience Young
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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Education Goodness Myself Possible School
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Children Ideas Teaching Thinking
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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Beginning Born Compel Humility Struggle
The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
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Assume Damage Different Important Man Oneself Woman
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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Children Education Society Teaching Woman
No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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Death Life Live Maturity Oneself World
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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Adult Children Grow Measurement Problem Solution
Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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Calendar Day Harmony History Holy Nature Transcend
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Afraid Along Man Woman
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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Attention Brain Change Choice Ourselves
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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Behavior Direct Humanity Inheritance Learning Series
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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Different First National Press Run Society View
I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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Act Biology Human Myself Realize
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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Admit Human Measurement Personal Success

Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.

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