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"Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may."
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"I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time."
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"In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her."
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"I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone."
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