"The government itself, which is only the mode……" — Henry David Thoreau

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• When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a… — James A. Baldwin
• This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer… — Euripides
• When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights,… — William J. Clinton
• Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine… — Martin Luther
• Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has… — Mark Twain
• Being bullied by a serial bully is equivalent to being stalked or being battered by a partner or being abused… — Tim Field
• When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I… — William J. Clinton

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