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All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.
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Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives…
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The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair.
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Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.
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I live to harass white folks.
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A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief - as well as injustice…
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It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.
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We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity,…
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Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as…
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However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation -- to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we…
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Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.
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Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly…
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America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must…
— Jane Addams
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It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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If they can't learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn.
— Unknown Author
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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
— Will Durant
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In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice…
— Max Lerner
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Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.
— H. P. Blavatsky
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What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way…
— Kathleen Turner
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We teach offense 5-0/5-5 (whole method) and defense by part (1-1/3-3).
— Dick Bennett
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In Randori we teach the pupil to act on the fundamental principles of Judo, no matter how physically inferior his opponent may…
— Kano Jigoro
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We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.
— John C. Maxwell
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When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.
— William Hazlitt
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