“I knew he was angry by this token. When I read when he wrote about women I thought, not of what he was saying, but of himself. When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument; and the reader cannot help thinking of the argument too. If he had written dispassionately about women had he used indisputable proofs to establish his argument and had shown no trace of wishing that the result would be one thing rather than another, one would not have been angry either.”
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“The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fullness of life which each man seeks”
― Moral Man and Immoral Society: Study in Ethics and Politics
― Moral Man and Immoral Society: Study in Ethics and Politics
“Invest me in my motley. Give me leave
To speak my mind, and I will through and through
Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world If they will patiently receive my medicine.”
― As You Like It
To speak my mind, and I will through and through
Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world If they will patiently receive my medicine.”
― As You Like It
“I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“Any person who claims to have deep feeling for other human beings should think a long, long time before he votes to have other men kept behind bars--caged. I am not saying there shouldn't be prisons, but there shouldn't be bars. Behind bars, a man never reforms. He will never forget. He will never get completely over the memory of the bars.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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