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But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
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Civil Rights Advocate
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Film Producer
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Alice Malsenior Walker
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'
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Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
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The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
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human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.
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