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There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.

Kind Life Sweetness Strength
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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.

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.

Germs 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

Race Untrammeled Rigid adherence Fact
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Now at the end of a long avenue, but when he turned to, look for his followers not one was to be seen; the woods had closed instantly upon him as he had passed through. He was entirely alone, and utter

End Long avenue Followers Seen
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On every side were stretched the bodies of men and animals apparently lifeless.

Every side Stretched Men Animals
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Don’t pray for what you can’t handle.

Handle Pray You
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Sad truth Evil People Minds
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

Most radical Revolutionary Conservative
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The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

Totalitarian education Convictions Capacity
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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

Loving life Abroad Your hands Master
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

Under conditions Tyranny Act Think
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Forgiveness Key Action Freedom
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Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

Forgiveness Way Irreversible History
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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti political forces.

Love Nature Reason Powerful
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Don’t you hate when a song has been out for a minute and it’s mad dope but you are the last to get on it

Song Minute Dope Mad
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes

Punishment Possessed Power Deterrence
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You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.

Against Biggest Biting Committed
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Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.

Action Distinguished Fabrication Possible
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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.

Only crime Confront us Perplexity Radical evil
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As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake

As citizen Wrongdoing World All live
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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.

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

Revolutionaries Power Street
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A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.

Anything Children Does Future
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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

Man Free Subject Necessity
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Power Violence Absolutely Absent
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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.

Children Poorest Group America
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The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons
Greatest evil Committed Human beings
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Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.
Automatic Weapons Socially Redeeming
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When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.

Old truth Applicable Stood
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I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.

Tough Believe Sense Strongly
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Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

Education Decent Housing Enough
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God can change your story at any gadamn time. Don't give up
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.

One 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.

Am Angry Care Children
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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.

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.

About Always American Declaration
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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.

Been Birth Children Consequences
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So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.

About Assassination Been Deep
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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.

Activists Always Building Committed
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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.

Actions Finish Honor Kennedy
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I need to work outside government, on my own.
Government Need Outside Own
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It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.

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.

About Atheists Believed Ever
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If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

Atheists Authority Automatically Beliefs
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Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
Championship Chess Computer Forward
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Against Am Because Religion
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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
War Luxury Small nations
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The only antidote to the reversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness.

Only antidote Reversibility History
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One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

Answers Really Religion Satisfied
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