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I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.

I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.
– Nadine Gordimer

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  2. I don’t cry. Unfortunately, I seem rather short of tears, so my sorrows have to stay inside me. – Nadine Gordimer
  3. You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder. – Nadine Gordimer
  4. I’m an atheist. I wouldn’t even call myself an agnostic. I am an atheist. – Nadine Gordimer
  5. The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch. – Nadine Gordimer
  6. Racism, Dr. Sam. I worry for my kids about racism. Racism doesn’t appear to take holidays or time off. What can I do about this stuff? – Allan Dare Pearce
  7. If there is no justice in a country, who can claim that, that country is a country? An injustice country is just a rubbish bin! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  8. Family life was and always will be the foundation of any civilization. Destroy the family and you destroy the country. – Erin Pizzey
  9. It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
  10. Stop thinking that racism is fun until a racist person get under your skin, that’s when you’ll know racism is not fun. – Werley Nortreus
  11. Racism is not funny, because it won’t solve anything, but making it worst instead, because racism is the reason the world is no longer great. – Werley Nortreus
  12. You cannot fix racism with more racism. – Christina Engela
  13. Racism breeds racism in reverse. – Mary Brave Bird
  14. The point of racism is to dehumanize those targeted by the racism. Violence as a reaction to injustice provides ammunition to racists. – The Prophet of Life
  15. As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world. – Virginia Woolf
  16. A great Country is not the Country with a great population,but a Country with a great number of persons that believe in entrepreneurship. – AuliqIce
  17. Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone. – Margaret Mead
  18. The question shouldn’t be, ‘Are we guilty about our Colonial past?’ it should be, ‘Why aren’t we more guilty about our corporate present? – Sara Sheridan
  19. It’s a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others. – Ben Aaronovitch
  20. Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out. – Pierre Berton
  21. Feel guilty. Mourn this. But move on. Don’t let it destroy you. Forgive yourself. – Richelle Mead
  22. To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent. – Nelson Algren
  23. There is no such thing as an innocent reading, we must ask what reading we are guilty of. – Louis Althusser
  24. The influence of sin touches the innocent as well as the guilty. – Billy Graham
  25. sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless manthe most guilty. – Franz Kafka
  26. Secrets can kill the innocent and enchant the guilty. – Alexis Hurley
  27. It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. – Voltaire
  28. Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent. – Terry Goodkind
  29. Just because you act a little guilty doesn’t mean you’re innocent. – Charlie Chan
  30. Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread, and deep-seated, that it is invisible because it is so normal. – Shirley Chisholm
  31. But she does it anyway, and I sit beside her…because strength is a choice. – Nadine Brandes
  32. A well-made turtleneck sweater will keep you warm, cozy, and protected from the cold. Your gums do the same thing for your teeth. – Nadine Artemis
  33. Teeth are alive, and given the proper environment, they can regenerate; this is why internal factors that nourish the teeth are so important. – Nadine Artemis
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  35. Anyone who wishes to destroy humanity’s past, desires to destroy its future. – Mario J Lucero
  36. When we destroy the fertile lands, we destroy our own good life! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  37. Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet. – Lenore Kandel
  38. Life cannot be without food; when we destroy the lands that give food, we destroy the foods that give life! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  39. It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy. – Louis LAmour
  40. I do not understand, why should mankind destroy each other?. Instead of building and working together for the common good? – Lailah Gifty Akita

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