If some busybody were to cross-examine me on the chapters already written, he could probably shed much more light on them, and if it were a hostile c… - Erik Erikson

Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

For both Indians and whites were outnumbered ten to one by hundreds of thousands of Natal Zulus. The Indians, of course, considered themselves to be closer to the whites than to the blacks, both as descendants of an ancient civilization and as adherents to three world religions. But to the whites they were nonwhites and therefore a cultural and political wedge for the masses of blacks. And as everywhere, it was the poorer whites, the petty white traders, and even white labor, whose fears were most vociferous, while the wealthy and landowning class in their economic and political fortresses could well afford to be open-minded in order to keep the influx of Indian labor coming. The law, of course, reflected the sense of threat shared by the majority of whites and had long since begun to control all nonwhites in a web of demeaning police ordinances.