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Im sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in

Im sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power. – Alice Walker

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Im not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say See, you did it yourself. – Alice Walker

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Education
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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesnt matter. Im not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesnt make us better, then what on earth is it for. – Alice Walker

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Art
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My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my fathers head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap. – Alice Walker

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The power to question is the basis of all human progress. – Indira Gandhi

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Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. – John F. Kennedy

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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion. – Joseph Addison

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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. – Calvin Coolidge

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