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To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. In this case, the danger, in the minds of most white Americans, is the loss of their identity.
“The notion of a Golden Age is common to all peoples and shows only that people are never satisfied with the present; having little hope for the future, from experience, they adorn the irrevocable past with all the colors of their imagination.”
― Novels, Tales, Journeys: The Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin
― Novels, Tales, Journeys: The Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin
“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“They avoided one another's faces, for fear of what they might see mirrored there. Each man thought: one of the others is bound to say something soon, some protest, and then I'll murmur agreement, not actually say anything, I'm not stupid as that, but definitely murmur very firmly, so that the others will be in no doubt that I thoroughly disapprove, because at a time like this it behooves all decent men to nearly stand up and be almost heard...
No one said anything. The cowards, thought each man.”
― Guards! Guards!
No one said anything. The cowards, thought each man.”
― Guards! Guards!
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