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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."

"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."

"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates."

"They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away."

"Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination."

"Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order."

"But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation."

"Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty."
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