This, he told me, is what poverty does. It takes away even what you think is inherent to a human being. Dignity. Pride.
“I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.”
― I Capture the Castle
― I Capture the Castle
“People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.”
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“It is my belief that conscious African American students ought to be in a constant state of rage and in a constant search for ways to channel that rage into freedom struggle.”
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“As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
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