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"Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed."
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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."
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"The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business."


"Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail."


"The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence."


"There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation."


"The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."


"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."


"Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible."


"Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon."
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