"It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor."

Equality, Consideration, Cooperation, Labor

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"It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor."

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"But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?"

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"He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles."

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"Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you."

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"Man has been adjudged a social animal."

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"Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one."

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"Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it."

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"Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?"

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"Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us."

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"The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies."

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"A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence."

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"It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts."

Ronald Reagan, American President

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"The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

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"There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people."

Toni Morrison, American Novelist

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"I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free."

Muhammad Ali, American Athlete

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"The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

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"Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us."

Toni Morrison, American Novelist

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"I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons."

Toni Morrison, American Novelist

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"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

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"You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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"I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying."

Barack Obama, American President

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