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Quotes by Historian
"Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails."
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"The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance."
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"The weak makes excuses, the strong makes changes."
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"The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry."
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"Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham."
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"No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little."
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"We ache with the yearningthat turns half into wholeand offer no excusesfor the beauty of our souls."
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"The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion."
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"History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances."
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"Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government."
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"Blinker Hall, operating on the quaint theory that the Navy might be needed for battle and that whatever increased the ship's efficiency was a criterion for change, had continued trampling on the toes of orthodoxy."
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"England's traditional tolerance was outraged at last."
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"For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give 'significant form' to the chaos of experience?"
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"A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight."
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"Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair that we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment."
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"Whoever is trying to bring you down is already beneath you."
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"In writing I am seduced by the sound of words and by the interaction of their sound and sense."
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"Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man's inhumanity to man."
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"In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss."
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"All of yesterday's ballers are today's road sweepers."
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"Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body."
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"Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength."
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"Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age."
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"Talent for oratory can simulate the need for action and even thought."
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"Only God is in a position to look down upon someone."
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"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection."
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"Any person who considers himself, and intends to remain, a member of Western society inherits the Western past from Athens and Jerusalem to Runnymede and Valley Forge, as well as to Watts and Chicago of August 1968. He may ignore it or deny it, but that does not alter the fact. The past sits back and smiles and knows it owns him anyway."
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"To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault."
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"Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government?"
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"You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are."
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"But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy, and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts."
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"He had become, through a combination of heritage and character, a keeper of the national conscience."
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"When the lyrical muse sings the creative pen dances."
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"Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION."
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"Respect can only be given to those who have earned it by working for it."
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"He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea."
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"His one essay in love had exhausted his powers in that direction."
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