We had talked long enough we were now ready to move if not now, we never should be and if we did not intend to move now, we had as well fold our arms, sit down, and acknowledge ourselves fit only to be slaves.
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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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