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"People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives."
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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."

"When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else."

"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."
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"The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."


"Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men."


"Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak."


"No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people."


"It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most."


"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."


"The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract."


"The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples."
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