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 | "Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down
to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of
discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so
absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would
be no advance towards civilization." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right
to life; secondly, to liberty; thirdly to property; together with the
right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. Those are
evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of
self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature." | |
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Samuel Adams
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| "Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one;
enemy to none." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "Civility costs nothing and buys everything." | |
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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| "From hence, let fierce contending nations know What dire effects
from civil discord flow." | |
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Joseph Addison
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| "I asked God for strength, that I might achieve I was made weak, that
I might learn humbly to obey.... I asked for health, that I might do
greater things I was given infirmity, that I might do better things... I
asked for riches, that I might be happy. I was given poverty, that I might
be wise... I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men I was
given weakness, that I might feel the need of God.... I asked for all
things, that I might enjoy life I was given life that I might enjoy all
things.... I got nothing I asked for ? but everything I hoped for. Almost
despite myself my unspoken prayers were answered. I am, among men, most
richly blessed!" | |
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Unknown
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| "I asked God for strength, that I might achieve. I was made weak,
that I might learn humbly to obey. I asked for health, that I might do
great things. I was given infirmity, that I might do better things. I
asked for riches, that I might be happy. I was given poverty, that I might
be wise. I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men. I was
given weakness, that I might feel the need of God. I asked for all things,
that I might enjoy life. I was given life, that I might enjoy all
things.... I got nothing I asked for ? but everything I hoped for. Almost
despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered. I am, among men, most
richly blessed!" | |
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Roy Campanella
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| "I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of
former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down
together at the table of brotherhood." | |
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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| "In the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but
equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently
unequal." | |
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Earl Warren
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| "Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and
any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the
suspicion of being no policy at all." | |
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Edmund Burke
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| "Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most
truly kept the law." | |
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John Milton
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| "No man is good enough to govern another man without that other?s
consent." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war
ever does end." | |
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Thomas Stearns Eliot
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| "The law changes and flows like water, and ... the stream of women"s
rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent." | |
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Shana Alexander
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| "There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never
seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned
every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this
war." | |
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Robert E. Lee
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| "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for
a just man is also a prison." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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