"What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position."

-- Stokely Carmichael

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“All over China, parents tell their children to stop complaining and to finish their quadratic equations and trigonometric functions because there are sixty-five million American kids going to bed with no math at all.”
“Knowledge of any kind ... brings about a change in awareness from where it is possible to create new realities.”
“Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience.”
“There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy. Millions and millions of children would today stand in no need of sex education or consumer education or anti-racism education or any of those fake educations, if they had had in the first place 'an' education.”
“When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.”
“You canâ€™t imagine the white-hot fury someone who canâ€™t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.”
“Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another.”

Source : Susan Neiman (2009). “Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists”, p.430, Princeton University Press
“Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.”

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