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Quote by Maya Angelou
I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innoc

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water. – Maya Angelou

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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. – Maya Angelou

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The sadness of the womens movement is that they dont allow the necessity of love. See, I dont personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed. – Maya Angelou

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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. – Maya Angelou

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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to ones beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. – James Baldwin

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never the correctness, of a belief. – Arthur Schweitzer, Out of My Life and Thought, 1932

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He does not believe who does not live according to his belief. – Thomas Fuller

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