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CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not.

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My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

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That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.

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We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

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I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.

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You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

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I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

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Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.

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I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

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You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

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Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

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I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

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A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.

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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

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Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

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Be that self which one truly is.

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

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