Quote by Abraham Lincoln
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impuls

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. – Abraham Lincoln

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Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail. – Abraham Lincoln

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Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color. – Author Unknown

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The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise. – African Proverb

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Black History

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down. – Thurgood Marshall

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Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth. – Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

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I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth. – Thomas Malthus

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People dont have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography. – Robert Mapplethorpe

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When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist. – Andrea Mitchell

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