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First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.
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Give us labour and the training which fits for labour! We demand this, not for ourselves alone, but for the race.
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We make this demand, not for our own sakes alone, but for the succour of the race.
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"Inherent differences" between men and women, we have come to appreciate, remain cause for celebration, but not for denigration of the members of either sex or for artificial constraints on an individual's opportunity.
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To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.
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I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
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I cannot believe that at this stage in our history, the American people would ever knowingly support purposeless vengeance.
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Arbitration is the true method of settlement of international as well as local or individual differences.
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One good turn deserves another.