A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.Frederick Douglass
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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One and God make a majority.
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The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
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