Quote by James Baldwin
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to bi

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. – 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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Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. – James Baldwin

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Humanity
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Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. – James Baldwin

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Sons
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Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or your foe, depending on his bringing up. – Author Unknown

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Sons

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons. – Friedrich von Schiller

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Sons

No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace – in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. – Croesus of Lydia

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Sons

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Sons

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