It was like a disease, and these children whom I loved without caring about their skins or their backgrounds, they were tainted with the hateful virus which attacked their vision, distorting everything that was not white or English.

E.R. Braithwaite
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  1. Today I was a teacher, employed. True, I was also a teacher untried, but that could also be an advantage. I would learn, by God I’d learn. Nothing was going to stop me.
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  5. The betrayal I now felt was greater because it had been perpetrated with the greatest of charm and courtesy.
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