“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
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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.
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.