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Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage.

John F. Kennedy

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Kennedy, John F. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1961, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

James Baldwin

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Baldwin, James. "The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy." Esquire, 1 May 1961.

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All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

John F. Kennedy

Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy

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Kennedy, John F. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1961, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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I like to be in America,
OK by me in America,
Everything free in America.

West Side Story

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West Side Story. Directed by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise, Seven Arts Productions/The Mirisch Company, 1961.

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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves—there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home.

Joan Didion

Vogue

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Didion, Joan. "Self-respect: Its Source, Its Power." Vogue, 1 Aug. 1961.

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Didion, Joan. "On Self-Respect." Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.

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Character—the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life—is the source from which self-respect springs.

Joan Didion

Self-respect: Its Source, Its Power

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Didion, Joan. "Self-respect: Its Source, Its Power." Vogue, 1 Aug. 1961.

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Didion, Joan. "On Self-Respect." Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.

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When I search for man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.

Frantz Fanon

The Wretched of the Earth

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Fanon, Frantz. Les Damnes de la Terre [The Wretched of the Earth]. Francois Maspero, 1961, conclusion.

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We never have despair without some small hope.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Pasolini, Pier Paolo. "Un'Appendice alla 'Religione': Una luce [An Appendix to 'Religion': The Light]." La religione del mio tempo. [The Religion of My Time]. c. 1961.

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Pasolini, Pier Paolo. "Appendice alla 'Religione': Una Luce/Appendix to 'The Religion of My Time: A Light." The Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolinia: A Bilingual Edition, edited and translated by Stephen Sartarelli. University of Chicago Press, 2015.

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Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born.

Robert Ardrey

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Ardrey, Robert. African Genesis: A Personal Investigation into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man. Atheneum, 1961.

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To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which, for better or for worse, constitutes self-respect, is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent.

Joan Didion

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Didion, Joan. "Self-respect: Its Source, Its Power." Vogue, 1 Aug. 1961.

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Didion, Joan. "On Self-Respect." Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.

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I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the telephone directory than by the Harvard University faculty.

William F. Buckley

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Buckley, William F., Jr. Quoted in "William F. Buckley, Jr.: Portrait of a Complainer." Interviewed by Dan Wakefield. Esquire Magazine, Jan. 1961.

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I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street.

Claes Oldenburg

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Oldenburg, Claes. Statement for exhibition catalogue called Environments, Situations, Spaces. c. 1961, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York City, NY, USA.

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