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Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.


James A. Garfield

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NELSON MANDELA against its sense, its spirit.
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JAMES A. BALDWIN Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
JAMES A. BALDWIN People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
JAMES A. BALDWIN The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world...
JAMES A. BALDWIN People can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES A. BALDWIN Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES A. BALDWIN You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the w...
JAMES A. BALDWIN The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to ex...
JAMES A. BALDWIN It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the inde...
JAMES A. BALDWIN If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Instead of showing visibly distinct alternate identities, the typical DID patient presents a polysym...
JAMES A. CHU