"This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern."

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"This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern."

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"The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now."

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"We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power."

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