O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?

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Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings in America? -Fannie Lou Hamer

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.

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Fiction is an ancient virtual reality technology that specializes in simulating human problems. - Jonathan Gottschall

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Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else...

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A father is the man who can change a world he will not be part of by building the tiny human that is part of him. ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

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Everybody fails, its no big deal. Its what being human is. Dont let that stop you from taking risks.- Katty Kay

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Good people are not that good. To tell the truth, if I were white, no matter how much I loved Negroes, I doubt that I would submit myself to Jim Crow living conditions just to prove my love.” “Neither would I,” said Simple. “Then you would not be very good, either.” “No,” said Simple, “but I would be white. ― Langston Hughes

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Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being. ― Josef Stalin

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