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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."

"My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words.""

"My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid."

"I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it."
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"My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them."
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