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Sarah-Patton Boyle

(1906–1994) Writer

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Sarah-Patton Boyle was a writer.

Quick Facts About Sarah-Patton Boyle

Born: May 9, 1906
Died: February 20, 1994
Profession: Writer

About Sarah-Patton Boyle

[Wikidata] civil rights activist in Virginia... | [Wikipedia] Sarah-Lindsay Patton "Pattie" Boyle was an American author and civil rights activist from Virginia during the Civil Rights Movement. She is the author of The Desegregated Heart and various articles and books about race relations in Virginia and the South. Boyle was a "faculty wife" of drama professo

Quotes by Sarah-Patton Boyle

Our minorities alone are in a position to know what the fathers of our democracy were talking about.

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Culture

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To grow is sometimes to hurt, but who would return to smallness?

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Gardening

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If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes…

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Grows

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I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without…

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Country

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Two great areas of deafness existed in the South: White Southerners had no ears to hear that which threatened their Dream. And…

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Anger

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The importance of a lost romantic vision should not be underestimated. In such a vision is power as well as joy. In…

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Barren

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When we lose love, we lose also our identification with the universe and with eternal values--an identification which alone makesit possible for…

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Altars

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... most Southerners of my parents' era were raised to feel that it wasn't respectable to be rich. We felt that all…

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Defense

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Serviceis love in action, love "made flesh"; service is the body, the incarnation of love. Love is the impetus, service the act,…

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Action

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... the structure of our public morality crashed to earth. Above its grave a tombstone read, "Be tolerant--even of evil." Logically the…

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Character

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... the constructive power of an image is not measured in terms of its truth, but of the love it inspires.

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Constructive

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A mechanism of some kind stands between us and almost every act of our lives.

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Kind

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A man's real and deep feelings are surely those which he acts upon when challenged, not those which, mellow-eyed and soft-voiced, he…

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Deep feeling

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... in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens…

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Attitude

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... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large…

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Acceptance

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