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Unable to perceive a single chance of regaining their equality, they give up to despair, and allow themselves to fall below the dignity of human nature.
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Baffled, discountenanced, subdued, discredited, as the cause of justice and humanity is, it will be only the dearer to me.
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Their life seems an immense disparity between effort and opportunity.
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The press and even the pulpit, in the main either by silence or open apology, have condoned and encouraged this state of anarchy.
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Melancholy is the condition of that people whose government can be sustained only by a system which periodically transfers large amounts from the labor of the many to the coffers of the few.
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Such a young person persistently believes that behind all suffering, behind sin and want, must lie redeeming magnanimity.
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The endorsement of that position by the majority of this Court can only lend credence to the most cynical appraisal of the work of judges throughout the land.
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The many have always been enthralled by the few; and, monsters who have scarcely shown any discernment of human excellence, have tyrannized over thousands of their fellow creatures.
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Other decent men are so alienated by such conduct that in their turn they abandon all effort to fight for reform, believing reformers to be either hypocrites or fools.
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The great Government we loved has too often been made use of for private and selfish purposes, and those who used it had forgotten the people.