“Oh God, forgive me for the hateful thoughts, because I love them, these brutal, disarming bastards, I love them ”

“Today I was a teacher, employed. True, I was also a teacher untried, but that could also be an advantage. I would learn, by God Id learn. Nothing was going to stop me.”

“So long as we learn it doesnt matter who teaches us, does it?”

“Instead, we try to give them affection, confidence and guidance, more or less in that order, because experience has shown us that those are their most immediate needs.”

“It was like a disease, and these children whom I loved without caring about their skins or their backgrounds, they were tainted with the hateful virus which attacked their vision, distorting everyt...”

“So long as we learn it doesn’t matter who teaches us, does it?”

“Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned...Everything is war. Me say war.That until the're no longer 1st class and...”

“When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back”

“And Charles turned around and called back without thinking, 'You know, you're awfully lucky you boys are white.'He didn't know why he said it. It had broken out of him. He'd wanted to speak with lo...”