“I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.”
― A Lesson Before Dying
― A Lesson Before Dying
“Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.”
― A Lesson Before Dying
― A Lesson Before Dying
“How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?”
― A Lesson Before Dying
― A Lesson Before Dying
“And that's all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we - each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better. ”
― A Lesson Before Dying
― A Lesson Before Dying
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
― Long Walk to Freedom
― Long Walk to Freedom
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