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By Other Notable Americans 02
Clarence
Darrow · Elmer Davis · Steven
Decatur Frederick Douglass · Thomas Campbell · Ralph Waldo Emerson
Clarence Darrow
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Elmer Davis
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is
the home of the brave.
Steven Decatur Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!
Frederick Douglass
Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom
The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is
honest, truthful, and virtuous.
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and
appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires
reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you
have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be
imposed on them.
I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern
Shore where I was born a slave.
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper
application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate
agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the
rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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.
The relation between the white and colored people of this
country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding
question for this age and nation to solve.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Thomas Campbell
The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's
tree.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Poet," Essays, Second Series, 1844 Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history
appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human
race.
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