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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

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Kenneth Clark

I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos.

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Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.

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The recognized achievements of some Negroes, despite rigid racial barriers, indicate that society by its prejudices may be depriving itself of valuable contributions from many others. It is now doubtful whether America can afford the luxury of such a waste of human resources.

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A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike.

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Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.

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I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must try to learn from history.

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