The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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.
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