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"I cannot hide my anger to spare you guilt, nor hurt feelings, nor answering anger; for to do so insults and trivializes all our efforts. Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge."
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"It's difficult to accept full responsibility and apportion blame at the same time " you have to choose one."
"We often blame our government for their lack of responsibility, socially and politically. We forget that that is only a result of the societal irresponsibility in general."
"Since when has irresponsibility and lack of accountability in public service become a Nigerian factor?"
"The reaction of whatever you do will continue punishing you (hold you accountable). I do not have to come to punish you, says God."
"I craft most of my own tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding that it is I myself who have done the crafting."
"Responsibility n: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God Fate Fortune Luck or one's neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star."
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"All of us will give an account to God about our life on earth, about our position and actions."
"The truth is that if you do not join the way of godliness, then you do not have any reason to complain when the ungodly are busy planning and making the pathway of ungodliness."
"You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him," said Miss Hillyard. "It didn't pay, did it? Say he sacrificed his professional honour for the women and children we hear so much about -- but in the end it left him worse of."But that," said Peter, "was only because he committed the extra sin of being found out."
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"It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it."
"But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society."
"If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive."
"In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction."
"When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak."
"I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell."
"But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women."
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