I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.
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Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.Mother Jones
My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.
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I preferred sewing to bossing little children.
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Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike.
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I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.
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My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
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