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“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”

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One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.

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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.

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I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

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The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.

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The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

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I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.

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