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There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored.

Unable to perceive a single chance of regaining their equality, they give up to despair, and allow themselves to fall below the dignity of human nature.

Men of the best intentions and soundest views may differ in their construction of some parts of the Constitution, but there are others on which dispassionate reflection can leave no doubt.

Our Constitution does not contain the absurdity of giving power to make laws, and another power to resist them.

The laws of the United States must be executed.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

The American system rests on the assertion of the equal right of every man to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, to freedom of conscience, to the culture and exercise of all his faculties.

Let us then, here and now, recognize this force and resolve to make the most of it—not the boys less, but the girls more.

Nay, ’tis woman’s strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class,—it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.

Only the BLACK WOMAN can say “when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.”

No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family.

A State cannot so deem a class of persons a stranger to its laws.

In the realm of time there is no aristocracy of wealth, and no aristocracy of intellect.

To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.

But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision I have finally been included in “We, the people.”

No political party can long pursue advantage at the expense of public honor or by rude and indecent methods without protest and fatal disaffection in its own body.

The man who has come to regard the ballot box as a juggler's hat has renounced his allegiance.

They will presently themselves be compelled to appeal to the law for protection, and those who would use the law as a defense must not deny that use of it to others.

We should hold our differing opinions in mutual respect, and, having submitted them to the arbitrament of the ballot, should accept an adverse judgment with the same respect that we would have demanded of our opponents if the decision had been in our favor.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.