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In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Source: Old Stories: New Lives, keynote address, 1978, to Child Welfare League of America; in Moving Towards Home: Political Essays, 1989.
-- June Jordan, (Jul 9 1936-2002), US writer, poet, journalist; Her books for children include Dry Victories, 1972 and His Own Where, 1971.

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