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With so much racial tension and issues between the police and black and minority ethnic groups, there needs to be more in-depth conversations if we're going to fix anything. ”
If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature. ”
All women, whatever be their position, should demand political equality as a means of a freer life, and one calculated to yield rich blessings to society. ”
Technologies and specific vendors may come and go, but massive cultural transformations and new kinds of relationships? Those don't go away. ”
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. ”
Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human. ”
You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them. ”
I sometimes feel like a British writer more so than I feel like an American writer. But I think that has to do with my subjective understanding of what it means to be either of those things. ”
If you're rich, you can leave a library, a building, or a hospital wing. But writing leaves behind a visceral sense of what it was like to be alive on the planet in a particular time. Writing tells us what it meant for someone to be human. ”
The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art. ”