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"I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards."

"Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers."

"Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural."

"I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us."
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"Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order."

"Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty."

"Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination."

"They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away."

"But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation."

"The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates."
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