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"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."
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"Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow."
"Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint."
"There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself."
"The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty."
"You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other."
"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."
"The more liberty you give away the more you will have."
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"A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills."
"The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?"
"It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity."
"Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life."
"When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings."
"But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire."
"An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."
"If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known."
"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships."
"Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men."
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