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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all."
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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
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"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."
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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."
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"New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere."
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"King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian."
Thought

"My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves."
Parenting

"I soon found law school an unmitigated bore."
Law

"By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader."
Leadership

"Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down."
Encouragement

"I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has."
Change

"Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats."
Man

"In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman."
Woman

"I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted."
Environment
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