We're allowing every Eric Harris, every troubled kid out there, to become the next Tim McVeigh.
I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?
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Martin Feldstein, Economist (1939) |
Jerry Ferrara, Actor (1979) |
Helen Gahagan, Actress (1900) |
Joe Gibbs, Coach (1940) |
Charlaine Harris, Author (1951) |
Pope John XXIII, Clergyman (1881) |
Roald Dahl, Novelist (1990) |
Laurence Harvey, Actor (1973) |
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Charles Kettering, Inventor (1958) |