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"We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country."
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"None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free."
"We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave."
"Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on."
"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work."
"He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white - skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearences he was dead, since his head drooped upon his shoulder and his eyes were closed above his bearded lips. Wang Lung looked at the pictured man in horror and with increasing interest."
"Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself"
"However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness."
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