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"I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed."
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"Raise your thoughts, not your fists."

"If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education."
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"One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in laying out a new project, you shouldn't try to cope with every little problem."


"Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?"


"The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity."


"As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it."


"Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education."
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