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Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is not proved by… — Unknown Author
I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still… — Black Elk
No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics. — Franz Boas
I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me… — Thomas Browne
You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself from becoming a mere mush… — Charles Dudley Warner
In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the… — Booker T. Washington
Those who came to the United States didn't realize they were white until they got here. They were told they were white. They had to… — Cornel West
It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put… — Ernest Hemingway
My brother Julio and I worked to improve the quality of wines from California and to put fine wine on American dinner tables at a… — Ernest Gallo
From a wine critic's perspective, there are far too many innocuous, over-oaked, over-acidified, or over-cropped wines emerging from California. While those sins would not be… — Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. — Albert Einstein
Trust is a fragile thing. Once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom. But once trust is lost, it can be impossible to recover. Of course… — Mary Alice
You learn more from ten days of agony than from ten years of content. — Sally Jessy Raphael
Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't wish to not be a woman, but I'd certainly like to be a woman whose sense of purpose comes from within. — Chiyo Uno
I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I… — Lucille Clifton
Racism cannot be separated from capitalism. — Angela Davis
The great waste comes from [the child's] inability to utilize the experience he gets outside of school in any complete and free way within the… — John Dewey
It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their… — Isak Dinesen
You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed. — Frederick Douglass
Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of… — Thomas A. Edison
Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anti-Semitism hits me on the head: I am enraged, I am bled white by an appalling battle, I am deprived of the possibility of being… — Frantz Fanon
They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men… — William Faulkner
We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are separated from nature… — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

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