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"My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves."
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"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."

"Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting."

"I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself."

"Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out."

"I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib."

"Never tell a child that something it's too hard."
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"In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions."

"New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere."

"The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society."

"I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted."

"Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both."

"Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white."
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