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I guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing.
Allan Dare Pearce
When you reach voting age, we will take your opinion under consideration.
Allan Dare Pearce
There is, you will concede, a limit to the niceties a man is obliged to fulfill when his wife is dead and not yet cold.
Allan Dare Pearce
Surely you can see the failings of the system. Inequality, injustice, unfairness, and exploitation--
Allan Dare Pearce
Do a lot of questions mean you are really smart or really dumb?
Allan Dare Pearce
Only one person can own any plate at a time. It belongs to the pitcher, or it belongs to the batter, Aiken, but not to both. You understand.
Allan Dare Pearce
Your repressed feelings desperately try to climb to the surface but fail to do so, and in therapy we seek to reveal -- to uncloak, if you will -- these unconscious desires, the things that your mind tries to repress, those secrets of your soul.
Allan Dare Pearce
A woman only needs one pair of shoes for an outfit. But God, you've got to get it just right.
Allan Dare Pearce
Insanity is not a fit topic for high-school children.
Allan Dare Pearce
They'll want to kill the crazies first. Big fish eat little fish -- always have, always will.
Allan Dare Pearce
Criticism involves taking a position, Mr. Day. How long has it been since you took a considered position on anything important?
Allan Dare Pearce
Everyone loves a girl who can rise to a crisis.
Allan Dare Pearce
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
Allan Dare Pearce
Schizophrenia. Always a bitch.
Allan Dare Pearce
Because this is Upper Canada, after all, and 'caning' sounds more English than 'having ass whipped to death with hickory stick.
Allan Dare Pearce
Until the War, we claimed to be equal; simpletons, some say, but equal man to man.
Allan Dare Pearce
I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere.
Allan Dare Pearce
We are free, but we are not equal. We are free, but not as free as other people in this land are free.
Allan Dare Pearce
But, ladies and gentlemen, we will also be asked to make sacrifices in matters that are not our affair and that do not concern us, sacrifices that would leave our people bleeding or wounded, or even dead, from battle. There is no equality for us in this lifetime.
Allan Dare Pearce
Slavery stands as an affront to human dignity.
Allan Dare Pearce
I am a teacher. I should be giving tests, not taking them.
Allan Dare Pearce
I am not a teacher in my heart," she said. "I am a doer, and all these little shitheads in front of me are do-nothings. There is racism in the world and they acknowledge it, but they sit in class listening to bullshit professors. Give me a bricklayer with a racist attitude. It is just more honest.
Allan Dare Pearce
She placed her hands, one on each of his shoulders, stood on her toes and kissed him on the lips. He waited, enjoying the moment like none before.
Allan Dare Pearce
You can't say asses in church unless you are speaking of donkeys.
Allan Dare Pearce
Come meet my dog.""What's the dog's name?""Justice.""Nice touch for a judge. A dog named Justice.
Allan Dare Pearce
People have been bred to hate for generations -- eons, maybe. Some fundamental urge. Something implicit in the human condition.
Allan Dare Pearce
My pa maintained that there are three important parts to a man. You got the heart, the brain, and the python.
Allan Dare Pearce
Are we praying?" "If you have to ask, you probably aren't.
Allan Dare Pearce
Some days in the camp you prayed to live; some days you prayed to die quick. Some days you didn't bother praying, knowing there was no sense to anything.
Allan Dare Pearce
My father believes with his entire soul that the meek shall inherit the earth. My children will inherit the earth but they will not be meek.
Allan Dare Pearce
These young people are going to change the world.
Allan Dare Pearce
Kids are important. The most important thing.
Allan Dare Pearce
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
To the extent a man can control chaos, he should put his testicles on the line and do so, but when a man can't, he should just step aside, or someone in the lineup behind him is gonna bite his ass.
Allan Dare Pearce
He believed a man should never be sober but never be drunk. And he believed in watching out for family, even if you had to stay sober for a few hours; it was that important.
Allan Dare Pearce
Anyone hurts my family, I slap them down. A man does for family. That's one of the rules I got from my pa. His rules for being a man.
Allan Dare Pearce
Family is more important than anything.
Allan Dare Pearce