"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible."

Prejudice, Burden, Past, Future

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"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible."

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"Bigotry is the sacred disease."

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"I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water."

Compassion

"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

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"To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision."

Youth

"If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die."

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"It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable."

Faith

"I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes."

Identity

"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning."

Wisdom

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

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"I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true."

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