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Juan Morillo
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“Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.”
— Feb 21, 2026 08:45AM
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Juan Morillo
is on page 99 of 106
“If one is continually surviving the worst that life can bring, one eventually ceases to be controlled by a fear of what life can bring; whatever it brings must be borne.”
— Feb 21, 2026 09:06AM
Juan Morillo
is on page 81 of 106
“To accept one’s past—one’s history—is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of draught. How can the American Negro’s past be used?”
— Feb 21, 2026 08:17AM
Juan Morillo
is on page 76 of 106
“If Harlem didn’t have so many churches and junkies, there’d be blood flowing in the streets.”
— Feb 21, 2026 08:08AM
Juan Morillo
is on page 72 of 106
“One cannot argue with anyone’s experience or decision or belief.”
— Feb 21, 2026 08:01AM
Juan Morillo
is on page 47 of 106
“It is not too much to say that whoever wishes to become a truly moral human being must first divorce himself from all the prohibitions, crimes and hypocrisies of the Christian Church.”
— Feb 20, 2026 05:20PM
Juan Morillo
is on page 45 of 106
“In the realm of power, Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty—necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.”
— Feb 20, 2026 05:16PM
Juan Morillo
is on page 5 of 106
“One can be, indeed one must strive to become, tough and philosophical concerning destruction and death, for this is what most of mankind has been best at since we have heard of man.”
— Feb 15, 2026 06:01PM
