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Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.
I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.
I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
