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The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there

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I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.

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Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.

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There is an indomitable quality within the human spirit that cannot be destroyed; a face deep within the human personality that is impregnable to all assaults.

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Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.

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If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether one is a racist or a victim, one comes to feel the absurdity of life. . . . Racism generated from whites is first of all absurd. Racism creates absurdity among blacks as a defense mechanism.

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It seemed so illogical to punish some poor criminal for doing something that civilization taught him how to do so he could have something that civilization taught him how to want. It seemed to him as wrong as if they had hung the gun that shot the man.

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