All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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The law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
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the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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Someone 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 change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
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We must not, in opening our schools to everyone
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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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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On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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You know, you really can’t beat a household commodity
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So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
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