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• Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
• You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
• You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close…
• The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is…
• For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm,…
• They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.
• We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim…
• If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a…
• What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other…
• Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom
• ... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.
• Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!

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