Source: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 18 (p. 150)
“If you're a father of sons, think of a man you'd like your boys to emulate, then be that man--exemplify his selflessness, fidelity, courage.”
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Barack Obama
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Circulated in "A Coil of Rage" http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/coilofrage.asp, a 2011 mass e-mail attributing several fabricated quotations to Obama.
Obama actually wrote, in Dreams from My Father, p. 220:
Yes, I'd seen weakness in other men — Gramps and his disappointments, Lolo [my adoptive father] and his compromise. But these men had become object lessons for me, men I might love but never emulate, <span style="color:gray">white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.</span>
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“A son is not a judge of his father, but the conscience of the father is in his son.”
Simon Soloveychik
(1930–1996) Russia writer and philosopher
Book 1, part 1, ch. 5
Pedagogika dlya vseh (Parenting For Everyone) (1977–1986)