"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships."

Land, Man, Poor, Race

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"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships."

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"The ranch was raw land when I bought it and, for better or worse, I have designed every aspect of it from the corrals, the arena, to the barn, to the house."

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"You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it."

James Callaghan, English Leader

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"Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt."

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"I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest."

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"I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair."

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"All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement."

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"You are the land. The land is you."

Merlin Olsen, American Athlete

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"Without that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated."

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"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."

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"One ever feels his twoness - 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."

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"To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires."

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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."

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"The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?"

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"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."

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"Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men."

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"Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life."

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"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."

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"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."

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