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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. i am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
-Ralph Ellison
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I Am Not Ashamed Of My Grandparents

Ralph Ellison
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. i am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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They are slaves who fear to speak for the fallen and the weak; they are slaves who will not choose hatred, scoffing, and abuse, rather than in silence shrink from the truth they needs must think; they are slaves who dare not be in the right with two or three.
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How precious is the family as the privileged place for transmitting the faith! speaking about family life, i would like to say one thing: today, as brazil and the church around the world celebrate this feast of saints joachim and anne, grandparents day is also being celebrated. how important grandparents are for family life, for passing on the human and religious heritage which is so essential for each and every society! how important it is to have intergenerational exchanges and dialogues, especially within the context of the family.
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With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice. sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. nor do daughters of their mothers. no one ever comes into his own…such is the cost of immortality. no person is whole. no person is free.
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The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can grow to be big, can become parents, and one day even have grandchildren of their own. so often we think of grandparents as belonging to the past; but in this important way, grandparents, for young children, belong to the future.
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Why do we love our grandparents so much? part of the reason i think has to do with the tremendous natural affection and affinity that kids have for older people, whether they are their actual grandparents or not.
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I do think that people who are now in their sixties and their seventies are living a different kind of life than their grandparents led, even in these tough times. a lot of them are more active, a lot of them are still working, which was not the case when our grandparents were in their sixties.
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