The mind does not take its complexion from the skin....
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One and God make a majority.Frederick Douglass
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
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America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
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The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
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