Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them.
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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.
The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.
There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
If you have an embarrassing story, and it's a source of shame, keeping it in just compounds the shame and turns the story into something poisonous. And if someone knows about it, then it can be used against you.
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.
American culture is not about experiencing our shame, it's about denying it. It's been that way our whole history.
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.