Quote by James Baldwin
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born,

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. – James Baldwin

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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Baldwin

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Action
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. – James Baldwin

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Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action. – Malcolm Fraser

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I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. Im angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done? – Andrew Cuomo

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Change

People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change. – William Hague

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Change

Youre only as young as the last time you changed your mind. – Timothy Leary

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I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university. – Hubert H. Humphrey

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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. – Russell Baker

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Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is. – Michael Haneke

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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it. – Ray Bradbury

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