Oleanna
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I came here
to tell you something...

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If I may...
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that I think...
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that I think you've been wrong.
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That I think
you've been terribly wrong.

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Do you hate me now?
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- Yes.
- Listen to me, Professor.

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It is the power
that you hate so deeply...

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that any atmosphere of
free discussion is impossible.

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It's not unlikely.
It's impossible, isn't it?

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- Isn't it?
- Yes, I suppose.

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Now the thing
which you find so cruel...

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is the self-same process
of selection...

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that I and my group go through
every day of our lives...

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in admittance to school...
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in our tests,
in our class rankings.

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You write that education
is just hazing.

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But we work
to get to this school...

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and some of us
overcame prejudices...

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economic, sexual...
you cannot begin to imagine...

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and endured humiliations that
I pray you and those you love...

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never will encounter
to gain admittance here...

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to pursue that same dream
of security you pursue...

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we, who are at any moment...
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in danger of
being deprived of it.

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By?
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By the administration,
by the teachers, by you.

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By one low grade that keeps us
out of graduate school.

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By one capricious or
inventive answer on our parts...

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which perhaps
you don't find amusing.

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I don't understand!
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My charges are not trivial.
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You see that in the haste
with which they were accepted.

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A joke you have told
with a sexist tinge.

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The language you use.
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A verbal or physical caress.
Yes, I know.

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You say it's meaningless.
I understand.

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I differ from you.
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To lay a hand
on someone's shoulder...

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It was devoid
of sexual content...

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I say it was not!
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Don't you begin to see,
to understand...

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that it is not for you to say.
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I take your point.

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