There is a ""sanctity"" involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
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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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No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
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The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
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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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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
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