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Equality should be a thing we don't even have to talk about anymore. ”
If the British public were shown slavery in their own society seen through the eyes of the enslaved, they would get a much better understanding. ”
Effectively transcending and conquering the legacies of enchainment, impoverishment and racial denigration continue to elude us. Residual elements of the plantation-based past continue to shape our societies and determine their trajectories. ”
To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats. ”
The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia. ”
Every human longs for peace and love. ”
I know myself - I cannot just play a cliche. It has to be a character; it has to be written with the complexity of the human being behind. Could be bad, could be good, could be someone we would hate, but still, I need a reason for that influence, and I need to understand why. ”
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts. ”
We are under no delusions as to the innate goodness even of very small children. They are bad a great deal of the time, but before it has been knocked out of them, they see no limit to the potentialities of the human will. Theirs is the faith to move mountains, because they do not yet know the fearful heft of them. ”
Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension. ”