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Character
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To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.
-Paul Eldridge
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Truth
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Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway.
-Elbert Hubbard, 1912
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Equality
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In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
-Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1950
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Equality
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There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.
-Robert G. Ingersoll, A Lay Sermon
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Censorship
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The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.
-James T. Farrell
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Censorship
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It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies.
-William O. Douglas
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Protest
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Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day sets for the community. In other words, literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
-William O. Douglas
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Speech (freedom of)
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The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution of way of life, or say and so things that make people think.
-William O. Douglas
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Patriotism
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"This act of mine may mean years of separation from your family, so you must decide quickly whether you will go north or remain here."
-David G. Farragut, Said to his wife when he was "sticking to the flag" after Virginia seceded from the Union in April 1861
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Racism
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I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo.
-Frantz Fanon
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