"Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are a part of life's heritage."
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"What the Negro wants - and will not stop until he gets - is absolute and unqualified freedom and equality here in this land of his birth, and not in Africa or in some imaginary state. The Negro no longer will be tolerant of anything less than his due right and heritage. He is pursuing only that which he knows is honorably his. He knows that he is right."
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"An Arab activist can take pride in the Arab heritage of mathematics and science or he can take pride in his religion, and there's pride to be taken in both. But one of them could be exploited much more easily and has been in the context of world conflict. And the other is very difficult to do on the grounds that science and literature and mathematics have been among the uniting factors in the history of the world."
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"There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave."
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"The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything."
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"But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees."
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"I think one can live in American society with a certain cultural heritage, whether it's an African heritage or other, European,what have you, and still absorb a great deal of this culture. There is always cultural assimilation."
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"Lord of himself; that heritage of woe!"
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"Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?"
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"We need everybody and all that we are. We need to know and make known the complete, constantly unfolding, complicated heritage that is our black experience. We should absolutely resist the superstar, one at a time mentality that threatens the varied and resilient, flexible wealth of our Black future."
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"I'm proud of my Native American heritage."
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"Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind."
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"My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient ancestry. I reject the heritage. I break the entail. And who are you to say I am unwise?"
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"Hopefully, the drivers will be able to race without running over one another. Anything with a heritage like this racetrack, I would not have messed with it. I would have saved my money."
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"He who denies his heritage, has no heritage"
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"The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian."
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"When you think about your heritage, you think about toughness and hard work."
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"The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage."
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