"My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange."

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in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term, undeviating policy make much headway. ... if you want to make the world a better place, the first thing you must accept is the fact that you cannot transcend your limitations as an individual.

— Margaret Halsey