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To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

Such exclusion goes over 'the very brink of constitutional power' and falls into the ugly abyss of racism.

I had the grief of neglected chances of escape to brood over

Slavery does away with fathers, as it does away with families.

The fatal poison of irresponsible power was already in her hands, and soon commenced its infernal work.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

My heart rebelled against God, who had taken from me mother, father, mistress, and friend.

The emotions excited by the songs of these thrushes belong to a higher order, springing as they do from our deepest sense of the beauty and harmony of the world.

Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's Presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear.

It is confidence in the men and women who administer the judicial system that is the true backbone of the rule of law.

Your heart is wounded with compassion to hear the mourning of friends, and, perhaps with anger, to hear the counterfeit condolings of pretenders.

Though slowly and with pain, the objects of the affections change, as the objects of thought do.

An habitual sadness seizes upon the soul, and the faculties are chained to a single object, which can never be contemplated but with hopeless uneasiness.

Native deformity cannot be rectified, a dead friend cannot return, and the hours of youth trifled away in folly, or lost in sickness, cannot be restored.

A false and a childish sorrow is appeased with as false and as childish a revenge.

A wise man gives way to tears in some cases, and cannot avoid them in others.

The position of the Negro today in America is the tragic but inevitable consequence of centuries of unequal treatment.

Thus, even as the colonists embarked on a course to secure their own freedom and equality, they ensured perpetuation of the system that deprived a whole race of those rights.

Better far this nameless void that stops my life than a sea of sorrow for you.

Well sped, my boy, before the world had dubbed your ambition insolence, had held your ideals unattainable, and taught you to cringe and bow.

The calculated killing of a human being by the State involves, by its very nature, a denial of the executed person's humanity.