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Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Real freedom
Mastery
Knowledge
Historic conditions
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The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Truth
Ripe moment
Answers
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Of the race, untrammelled by the necessity of rigid adherence to the fact. The myths record the earliest attempt at an explanation of the world and its life; the fairy tale records the free and joyful
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Race
Untrammeled
Rigid adherence
Fact
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On every side were stretched the bodies of men and animals apparently lifeless.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Every side
Stretched
Men
Animals
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
Hannah Arendt
Most radical
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Conservative
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Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time
Hannah Arendt
Loving life
Abroad
Your hands
Master
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Hannah Arendt
Point
Dreams
Come true
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes
Hannah Arendt
Punishment
Possessed
Power
Deterrence
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Hannah Arendt
Only crime
Confront us
Perplexity
Radical evil
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There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.
Marian Wright Edelman
America
Billionaires
Breaks
Children
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can pick it up. Armed uprising by itself has never yet led to revolution
Hannah Arendt
Revolutionaries
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Street
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For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
Hannah Arendt
Politics
Like
Nursery
Obedience
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Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.
Marian Wright Edelman
Children
Poorest
Group
America
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When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
Hannah Arendt
Old truth
Applicable
Stood
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DJ Spinall
God
Change
Story
Don’t give up
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One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.
Hannah Arendt
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Greatest
Advantages
Elite
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I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Angry
Care
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To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.
Marian Wright Edelman
Again
Anything
Become
Even
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We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites.
Marian Wright Edelman
About
America
Capacity
Care
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The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Always
American
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I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.
Marian Wright Edelman
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All-Around
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Around
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Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.
Marian Wright Edelman
Been
Birth
Children
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We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.
Marian Wright Edelman
Activists
Always
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Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Finish
Honor
Kennedy
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The key is that your children are aware that you love them a lot, and that you are there when they really, really need you. If a kid was ill, I would simply leave a meeting and go home.
Marian Wright Edelman
Aware
Children
Go
Home
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Marian Wright Edelman
Government
Need
Outside
Own
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I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I couldn't drink at a so-called white drinking fountain.
Marian Wright Edelman
Always
Anybody
Bear
Being
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It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.
Marian Wright Edelman
Challenge
Going
Me
Never
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Richard Dawkins
About
Atheists
Believed
Ever
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You need God all the time but you see when you are winning, That’s when you need God the most
DJ Spinall
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Time
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Most
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Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author ...
Hannah Arendt
Nobody
Author
Producer
Own life
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Hannah Arendt
War
Luxury
Small nations
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Richard Dawkins
Brains
Drop
Means
Our
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Good works, because they must be forgotten instantly, can never become part of the world; they come and go,leaving no trace. They truly are not of this world.
Hannah Arendt
Good works
Forgotten instantly
World
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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Richard Dawkins
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Belief
Institutions
Passage
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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Richard Dawkins
Blind
Discouraging
Expedient
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For legends attract the very best in our times, just as ideologies attract the average, and the whispered tales of gruesome secret powers behind the scenes attract the very worst.
Hannah Arendt
Legends attract
Test
Times
Ideologies attract
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Slavery became the social condition of the laboring classes because it was felt that it was the natural condition of life itself.
Hannah Arendt
Slavery
Social condition
Laboring classes
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There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.
Hannah Arendt
Hardly
Better way
Discussion
Releasing
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Whatever can be taken away from a lasting enjoyment for its own sake cannot possibly be the proper object of desire.
Hannah Arendt
Taken away
Lasting enjoyment
Proper object
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Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such,
Hannah Arendt
Mass leaders
Power
Lies
Propaganda
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To sum up: politically speaking, it is insufficient to say that power and violence are not the same. Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent
Hannah Arendt
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Politically speaking
Power
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The only possible metaphor one may conceive of for the life of the mind is the sensation of being alive. Without the breath of life, the human body is a corpse; without thinking, the human mind is dead.
Hannah Arendt
Possible metaphor
Conceive
Life
Mind
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The crime of the Nuremberg Laws was a national crime; it violated national, constitutional rights and liberties, but it was of no concern to the comity of nations.
Hannah Arendt
National crime
Violated
Constitutional right
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Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
Robert Browning
Loved
LovedOne
Never
Place
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God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
Richard Dawkins
Culture
Environment
Exists
Form
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
Robert Browning
Age
Crystal
Deemed
Dew
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You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.
Harlan Ellison
Entitled
Your opinion
Informed opinion
Ignorant
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The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet
Robert Browning
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Burn
Cheeks
Clutch
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid
Harlan Ellison
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Thinking
Stupid
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