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Quotes from Decent and Indecent: Our Personal and Political Behavior — Benjamin Spock

1903–1998 United States

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Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.

Decent and Indecent: Our Personal and Political Behavior (1970)

As parents and teachers we need to bring up more of our children with generosity of spirit.

Decent and Indecent: Our Personal and Political Behavior (1970)

This solution has great superficial appeal--all the excitement of secret, forbidden, romantic sexuality without family responsibility and family grubbiness.

Decent and Indecent: Our Personal and Political Behavior (1970)

Man can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet he's potentially more vicious than any other. He is the only one who can be persuaded to hate millions of his own kind whom he has never seen and to kill as many as he can lay his hands on in the name of his tribe or his God.

Decent and Indecent: Our Personal and Political Behavior (1970)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Benjamin Spock (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.