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"It is in our authority and power to stop torment and sickness and deliver people from vanity."

"All human beings wield influence-a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care."
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"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty."

"A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle."

"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness."

"Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?"

"The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them."

"What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches."
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