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James A. Baldwin

"It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."

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"It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."

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Amber Hurdle

"I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me."

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"Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is."

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"The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law."

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Amber Hurdle

"We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today."

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Amber Hurdle

"I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world."

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Amber Hurdle

"I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally."

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"I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues."

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Amber Hurdle

"Hurricane Katrina this past week was certainly the worst episode in what has become an all-too-familiar and tragic cycle, and our nation is now faced with a set of unprecedented challenges."

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Amber Hurdle

"Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?"

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"I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons."

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"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."
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"The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory."
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"You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself."
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"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time."
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"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."
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"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."
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"When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living."
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"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."
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"The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions."
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"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."
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