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I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its… — William Wells Brown
Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time,… — D. H. Lawrence
Each of us has much more hidden inside us than we have had a chance to explore. Unless we create an environment that enables us… — Muhammad Yunus
Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not to. We're talking about three… — Stephen Covey
Trust is a fragile thing. Once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom. But once trust is lost, it can be impossible to recover. Of course… — Mary Alice
...but we also know that to be educated, the goal of it must be human liberation-liberation enabling each of us to fulfill our capacity so… — Hillary Clinton
You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and… — Frederick Douglass
We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the… — Charles Ferguson
We had no churches, no religious organizations, so sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe would assemble and sing and… — Geronimo
When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is both in dollars and in… — John Howard Griffin
For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt. — Lillian Hellman
In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in various ways, God… — Carter Heyward
It's funny how heterosexuals have lives and the rest of us have "lifestyles." — Sonia Johnson
We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God. We do not want to learn that. We may quarrel with… — Chief Joseph
We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed. — Thomas a Kempis
Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies… — John Oliver Killens
We are not fighting for the right to be like you. We respect ourselves too much for that. When we advocate freedom, we mean freedom… — John Oliver Killens
More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is… — Jonathan Kozol
There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from… — Walter Savage Landor

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