“If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.”
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The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
