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"Privilege' is something else.'Privilege' is a judgment.'Privilege' is an opinion.'Privilege' is an accusation."
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
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"The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men, only the clean can wash the grimy!"
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