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James A. Baldwin

"I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all."

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"I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all."

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Akiroq Brost

"Dr. Rex Curry, the professor and attorney from Florida, has debated and largely proven the unavoidable evidence that Hitler's National Socialism was significantly influenced by Bellamy's 'nationalistic' form of 'socialism.' Curry is famous for making the claim that Hitler adopted the 'stiff-arm salute' from Francis and Edward Bellamy."

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"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

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"This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, whereas it has always been our dearest hope. Your too sudden passion is made up of spite and necessity."

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"In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down."

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"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."

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"And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history-money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery-the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."

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"Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point."

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"Gandhi sacrificed India for his own fame and recognition. Without Gandhi, there would have been a different India; a very masculine one."

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"They shout that they want to shape a better future, but it's not true. The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about,but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent, wounding, to the point that we want to destroy it or repaint it. We want to be the masters of the future only for the power to change the past. We fight for access to the labs where we can retouch photos and rewrite biographies and history."

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"What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!"

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"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."
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"You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself."
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"Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned."
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"The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in."
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"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."
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"If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons."
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