Quote by James Baldwin
The greatest significance of the present student generation is tha

The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed. – James Baldwin

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The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land. – James Baldwin

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Immigration
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James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare– but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them. – James Baldwin

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History
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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power. – James Baldwin

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relationship
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Theories and goals of education dont matter a whit if you do not consider your students to be human beings. – Lou Ann Walker

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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them. – Emile-Auguste Chartier

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Students

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied. – Samuel Johnson

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Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life. – Woodrow Wilson

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Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along. – Caroll Shelby

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The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit. – Norman Douglas

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I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching. – Nikki Giovanni

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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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