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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close…
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The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is…
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For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm,…
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They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim…
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a…
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What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other…
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Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom
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... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of…
— George Washington
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I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of…
— William Wilberforce
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That mainstream English is essential to our self-preservation is indisputable . . . but it is not necessary to abandon Spoken Soul…
— Unknown Author
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It has always been a source of serious reflection and sincere regret with me that the youth of the United States should…
— George Washington
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Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air,…
— Samuel Johnson
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
— Larry Wall
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The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ. What he is or is not…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
— Frederick Douglass
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