the phrase "a mind is a terrible thing to waste" was first introduced as part of a 1972 advertising campaign for the united negro college fund (uncf). the slogan was created by forest long, a copywriter at the young & rubicam advertising agency, to promote the importance of education for african american students and to encourage donations to support scholarships. > "frederick douglass once said that '[e]ducation . . . means emancipation. it means light and liberty. it means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.' today many of our inner-city public schools deny emancipation to urban minority students." zelman v. simmons-harris, 536 u.s. 639, 676 (2002) (thomas, j., concurring), citing "the blessings of liberty and education: an address delivered in manassas, virginia, on 3 september 1894", in 5 the frederick douglass papers 623 (j. blassingame j. mckivigan eds. 1992). **> <> <**> <> <** [sex and character] in the author's preface to sex and character, weininger himself expressed a sense of profound dissatisfaction with contemporary thought, seeking to transcend what he saw as shallow interpretations of sexuality and gender. he writes, > "this book is an attempt to place the relations of sex in a new and decisive light...it deals not with women, but with woman." weininger, sex and character, author's preface.
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