So Go On And Deal With It

I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.
—  James Baldwin
From: “Notes of a Native Son“
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2015	From A Letter To A Friend
2014	Your Part (Here)
2013	Complements
2012	Sound And Light
2011	Two Politicians Visit A Farm…
2010	Labor Day And Honorable Men

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Prayer, Too

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
―    Friedrich Nietzsche
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On This Day In:
2015	History, n.
2014	See It Sometime
2013	Precious Friend
2012	It Couldn’t Be Done
	Feeling Surrounded?
2011	Surprise!

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Just Plain Wrong

Hating people because of their color is wrong.  And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating.  It’s just plain wrong.
―    Muhammad Ali
[Hating people because of their religion is wrong.  And it doesn’t matter which religion does the hating.  It’s just plain wrong.  (What would Jesus say?)   —   KMAB]
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On This Day In:
2014	Finding Beliefs
2013	Pretty Confident
2012	Effective Ranges
2011	Three Wisdoms
2010	I’m Just Askin’…
	Space & Time

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I Can Tell Too

The opposite of faith is not doubt:  It is certainty.  It is madness.  You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.
—     Anne Lamott
[Found at one of the blogs I follow:  http://pastlifetourist.com/
The specific link is:   http://pastlifetourist.com/2015/04/11/the-opposite-of-faith/
—    KMAB]
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On This Day In:
2014	In Hand
2013	No Fear
2012	Comic Books
	Keeping The Peace
2011	You Still Have To Pay For It

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Still And Too Often

Too often fear has been used to keep us apart.  It’s the fear of the unknown.  That’s what segregation created and built up over time.  We spent so much time hating each other that we never stopped to realize that most black people and white people just want the same things in life.
Now that we’re no longer legally separated by race, we’re separated by money.  So we still don’t live together; we still don’t get to see the best qualities we each have to offer.
—    Charles Barkley
From his book: “Who’s Afraid Of A Large Black Man?“
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