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"Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due."
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"A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king."
"Barking at people earns their respect about as effectively as staring into the sun improves your vision."
"I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect."
"A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could."
"I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. they are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours, hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating."
"Respect is that great spirit of good, which creates the beautiful space giving all souls the simple room to breathe."
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"The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books."
"What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind."
"There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness."
"I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare."
"You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman."
"In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all."
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