Lillian Smith - Killers of the Dream (1949)

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Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

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The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

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We in America – and men across the earth – have trapped ourselves with that word equality, which is inapplicable to the genus man. I wish we would forget it. Stop its use in our country: Let the communists have it. It isn't fit for men who fling thei... r dreams across the skies. It is fit only for a leveling down of mankind.

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Belief in Some One's right to punish you is the fate of all children in Judaic-Christian culture. But nowhere else, perhaps, have the rich seedbeds of Western homes found such a growing climate for guilt as produced in the South by the combination of warm moist evangelism and racial segregation.

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Change means leaving one's memories, one's sins, one's ancient prison, the room where one was born.

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