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• Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
• Dreaming men are haunted men.
• Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my…
• We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
• Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts…
• The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.
• Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember…
• Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.
• American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art,…
• I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel's heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my…
• Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men.
• Grant us a common faith that we shall know bread and peace-that we shall know justice and righteousness, freedom and security, an…

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