Blind Quotes
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"Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.
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I am aware of the changes, but in no sense am I believer that we live in a post-racial society. That's a description of our inheritance and that is theirs, which is inescapable. It is doesn't matter if you are from New England or Mississippi. You're an American. It doesn't matter if you are white, black, brown, or Asian. It is part of American society. You'd have to be blind, deaf, or dumb not to know it. The emphasis on color or the fear of it, is all part of the same dark flower. I am trying to point to that and to bring it all the way back from Senegal.
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We are blind to each other's humanity.
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Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you must go and sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody... it is never too small, for this is our love of Christ in action
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I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
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Personally I do not believe in a national agency devoted only to the negro blind because in spirit and principle I am against all segregation, and the blind already have difficulties enough without being cramped and harassed by social barriers.
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Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
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For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also.
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Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others tokneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat.
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In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.
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If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!
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Ego is something that everybody, creative especially, has to grapple with. You need enough ego to keep going but not so much ego that you're deaf or blind, that you're making a mistake and can't fix the course.
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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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Some cats are blind and stone deafdeaf some. But ain't no cat wuz ever dumb.
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Blind in the eye, so I see you with my heart...
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General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.
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If you were alone and suddenly became blind, and even so you keep walking forward.
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The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.
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An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.
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I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
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Sometimes looking so hard can make one blind.
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Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.
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A man is not a different person just because he becomes aware. Oh I know it must seem like metamorphosis when the eyes of a blind man are opened, but he's the same man. We grow, mercifully, and growth is just awareness of more and more.
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Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.
