Benjamin Banneker Quotes
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Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
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The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.
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I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense…
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It is the indispensable duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, and who possess the obligations of Christianity, to extend…
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Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot…
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Were there no uniforms, there would probably be no armies.
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I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.
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Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
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Let a Secretary of Peace be appointed.
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