"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."

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"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."

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"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."

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