The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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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
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you.... The resistance encountered now predicates hope.... Only as we rise ... do we encounter opposition.
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