Quote by Maya Angelou
It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they re

It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don – Maya Angelou

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Theres a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. – Maya Angelou

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Truth
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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. – Maya Angelou

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respect
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Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. – Maya Angelou

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It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages? – William Booth

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. – Jane Addams

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Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue. – John Herschel

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