"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up."
-James A. Baldwin
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"The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.“
-James A. Baldwin
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"People can cry much easier than they can change."
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"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose."
-James A. Baldwin
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"The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide."
-James A. Baldwin
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"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
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"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."
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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
-Jimi Hendrix
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"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
-Michel Foucault
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"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
-John Steinbeck
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"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
-David Brin
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