Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
ADLAI STEVENSON IISomeone asked me…how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow-townsman of ours used to tell–Abraham Lincoln.
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Dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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There is…a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied..
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It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
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So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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It is upon us whether we will it or not.
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It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man – not a color.
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The boldness to face them, face them square.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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That nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.
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To have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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And this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
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The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
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