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"It must be remembered that in those great days I was considered to be an "integrationist" - this was never, quite, my own idea of myself - and Malcolm was considered to be a "racist in reverse." This formulation, in terms of power - and power is the arena in which racism is acted out - means absolutely nothing: it may even be described as a cowardly formulation. The powerless, by definition, can never be "racists," for they can never make the world pay for what they feel or fear except by the suicidal endeavor which makes them fanatics or revolutionaries, or both."
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
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"Kingdom laws are the same for everyone."
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"What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another woman's face? What woman's terms of oppression have become precious and necessary to her as a ticket into the fold of the righteous, away from the cold winds of self-scrutiny?"
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"Formerly these harsh cells in which the discipline of the prison leaves the condemned to himself were composed of four stone walls, a ceiling of stone, a pavement of tiles, a camp bed, a grated air-hole, a double iron door, and were called "dungeons" ; but the dungeon has been thought too horrible; now it is composed ofan iron door, a grated air-hole, a camp bed, a pavement of tiles, a ceiling of stone, four stone walls, and it is called "punishment cell."
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"How many crimes have been committed for no other reason than that the perpetrator could not bear being in the wrong!"
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"When you a get a job you are not qualified for, it will be evil to you and to your community."
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"The corrupt system made the ordinary citizen absolutely powerless and without rights."
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"The law or any practice that is not for the good of the people must be changed."
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"Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?"
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"A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown."
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"The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly."
Beauty
"We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours."
Experience
"I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it--it, the physical act.I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine."
Philosophy
"The question of identity is a question involving the most profound panic-a terror as primary as the nightmare of the mortal fall."
Psychology
"The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people, it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless."
Morality
"It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian."
Age
"The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black."
People
"But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power."
Power
"It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless."
Man
"We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible."
Education
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