The best use of laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet. - Wendell Phillips

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[T]he Negro race, instead of being that object of pity or contempt which we usually consider it, is entitled, judged by the facts of history, to a place close by the side of the Saxon.

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External vigilance is the price of liberty.

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When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.

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