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The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.
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The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.
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I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa,…
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My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have…
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This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them…
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Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is:…
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Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been…
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I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed... I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere…
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Get them to sing your song and they will want to know who you are.
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I stand here struggling for the rights of my people to be full citizens in this country. They are not-in Mississippi. They…
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In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning…
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As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the forward march…
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My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for…
— Elayne Boosler
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Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.
— Buzz Aldrin
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Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back…
— Herman Cain
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My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.
— Eric Cantona
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I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state,…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.
— Butterfly McQueen
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Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the…
— Edward Abbey
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I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded…
— Hannibal
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I understand how difficult it can be for an African-American in today’s society. In fact, I can relate to black people very…
— Mitt Romney
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For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or…
— Malcolm X
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I come of Quaker stock. My ancestors were persecuted for their beliefs. Here they sought and found religious freedom. By blood and…
— Herbert Hoover
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Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives…
— Carl Jung
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