Serviceis love in action, love "made flesh"; service is the body, the incarnation of love. Love is the … - Sarah-Patton Boyle

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Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

Sarah-Patton Boyle

Serviceis love in action, love "made flesh"; service is the body, the incarnation of love. Love is the impetus, service the act, and creativity the result with many by-products.

Body, Creativity, Impetus, Love, Result

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Our minorities alone are in a position to know what the fathers of our democracy were talking about.

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. . . the constructive power of an image is not measured in terms of its truth, but of the love it inspires.

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To grow is sometimes to hurt, but who would return to smallness?

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. . . in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens and [was] psychologically capable of turning either way.

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. . . one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large significance. . . I now realize that this feeling inevitably takes possession of one in the bitter struggle for equality. Indeed, I share it. Yet I wonder how we can expect total acceptance to step full grown from the womb of prejudice, with no embryo or infancy or childhood stages.

Acceptance, Blind Spots, Infancy, Large, Struggle, Wonder

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