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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962Let us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first.
—Frederick Douglass, 1878Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
—John Berger, 1987The tune I remember, could I but keep the words.
—Virgil, 38 BCBeing thus arrived in good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stale earth, their proper element.
—William Bradford, 1630One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889I wants to make your flesh creep.
—Charles Dickens, 1837Water its living strength first shows, / When obstacles its course oppose.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1815I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929