One can only face in others what one can face in oneself.
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The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have.James Baldwin
If the word integration means anything, this is what it means that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.
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Hatred destroys the person who hates.
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Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need a sense of life's possibilities.
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It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story to vomit the anguish up.
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