Quote by James Baldwin
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child c

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. – James Baldwin

Other quotes by James Baldwin

It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be. – James Baldwin

Category:
Charity
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. – James Baldwin

Category:
Racism
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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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Belief
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Other Quotes from
Education
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It is only the ignorant who despise education. – Publilius Syrus

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Education

Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports. – Mahesh Bhupathi

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Education

My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her childrens education. – Spike Lee

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Education

To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises. – Hannah Arendt

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Education

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We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas. – Mac Thornberry

Category:
environmental

One cant relive ones life. Forgiveness is not whats difficult ones always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, thats obvious. – Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Category:
Forgiveness

The perfect tattoo… the one I believe we are all struggling toward… is the one that turned the jackass into a zebra. – Cliff Raven

Category:
Tattoos

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Category:
Self-Control