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The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.
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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press
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It is a well-established principle of law that every wrong has a remedy.
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The evil cannot be cured or remedied by silence as to its existence.
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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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Freedom can never yield its fullness of blessings so long as the law or its administration places the smallest obstacle in the pathway of any virtuous citizen.
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Bad local government is certainly a great evil, which ought to be prevented; but to violate the freedom and sanctities of the suffrage is more than an evil.
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There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.
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In short, we ought to do justice in a kindly spirit to all nations and require justice from them in return.
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Next in importance to the maintenance of the Constitution and the Union is the duty of preserving the Government free from the taint or even the suspicion of corruption.
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Our diplomacy should be direct and frank, neither seeking to obtain more nor accepting less than is our due.
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After becoming citizens they are entitled, under the Constitution and laws, to be placed on a perfect equality with native-born citizens, and in this character they should ever be kindly recognized.
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By the theory of our Government majorities rule, but this right is not an arbitrary or unlimited one.
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The burdens of government should as far as practicable be distributed justly and equally among all classes of our population.
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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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One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
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The friend, however, took her in, and the friend's husband was obliged to sleep upon a bench in the park every night for a week, which he did uncomplainingly if not cheerfully.
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The most serious effect upon the poor comes when dependence upon the charitable society is substituted for the natural outgoing of human love and sympathy, which, happily, we all possess in some degree.
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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 right to dissent peaceably, within the guardrails of our Republic, is perhaps our nation's greatest strength.
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If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information, and benevolence.
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Want of a common judge with authority, puts all men in a state of nature: force without right, upon a man's person, makes a state of war
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Where-ever law ends, tyranny begins, if the law be transgressed to another's harm
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It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.
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Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.