I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting.
David Foster WallaceRead
No one should feel uncomfortable when they come to a NASCAR race, so it starts with Confederate flags. Get them out of here. They have no place for them.
Interpretation
The quote advocates for creating an inclusive environment by rejecting symbols of division and hate.
Bubba Wallace emphasizes the importance of making NASCAR, and sports in general, a welcoming place for everyone. He particularly highlights the need to eliminate Confederate flags, which represent racial oppression, to ensure that no one feels uncomfortable or excluded at events.
In practice
This quote could be used during a discussion on diversity in sports.
I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting.
Our nation was built and civilized by men and women who used guns in self-defense and in pursuit of peace. One wonders indeed, if the rising crime rate, isn't due as much as anything to the criminal's instinctive knowledge that the average victim no longer has means of self-protection.
Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain; for then the hope of all such things was dead. I came to Your Highnesses with honest purpose and sincere zeal; and I do not lie. I humbly beseech Your Highnesses that, if it please God to remove me hence, you will help me to go to Rome and on other pilgrimages.
Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.
I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.
No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.
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