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Quote by James Baldwin
The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. – James Baldwin

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

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Education
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James Baldwin
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Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. – James Baldwin

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America
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James Baldwin
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It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. – James Baldwin

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Education
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Other Quotes from
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“I must do something” always solves more problems than “Something must be done.” – Author Unknown

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Kwanzaa

One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man. РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by

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Kwanzaa

Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself. – Haniel Long

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Kwanzaa

Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there. – Virginia Burden, The Process of Intuition

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Kwanzaa

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more. – John Adams

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The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros. – Minna Antrim

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From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength. – Cesar Chavez

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Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. – Albert Einstein

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