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"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."
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"Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming."
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"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."
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"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."
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"Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out."
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"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."
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"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."
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"He who hates vice hates men."
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"Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it."
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"He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man."
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"The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions."
Trust
"Raising Black children - female and male - in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive."
Social
"Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever."
Love
"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own."
Freedom
"Black men are not so passive that they must have Black women speak for them. Even my fourteen-year-old son knows that. Black men themselves must examine and articulate their own desires and positions and stand by the conclusions thereof. No point is served by a Black male professional who merely whines at the absence of his viewpoint in Black women's work. Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves."
Empowerment
"When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."
Strength
"When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid."
Strength
"In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us."
Diversity
"Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism."
Quality
"For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us."
Courage
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