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I should like to see the women of civilization rebel against the senseless wholesale human sacrifice of warfare. I am convinced that many thousands of women throughout the world would gladly rise to this challenge |
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The Nonviolent Struggle For Justice |
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5 | (2) |
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I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent struggle for justice. To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men! |
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The Oklahoma City Bombing |
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7 | (5) |
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Let us teach our children that the God of comfort is also the God of righteousness. Those who trouble their own house will inherit the wind. Justice will prevail |
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In Defense of John T. Scopes |
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12 | (3) |
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We are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind |
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15 | (7) |
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22 | (3) |
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I believe in the Negro Race, in the beauty of its genius, the sweetness of its soul, and its strength in that meekness which shall yet inherit this turbulent earth |
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The War Is Won But The Peace Is Not |
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25 | (3) |
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The Military-Industrial Complex |
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28 | (9) |
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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist |
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The Power of Our Sisterhood |
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37 | (6) |
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We faced the enemy and the enemy was us, was our own lack of self confidence, was woman's self-denigration |
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The Luckiest Man On The Face of The Earth |
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43 | (2) |
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Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth |
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Extremism In Defense of Liberty Is No Vice |
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45 | (12) |
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I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue! |
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57 | (3) |
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Aggression by terror against the peaceful villagers of South Vietnam has now been joined by open aggression on the high seas against the United States of America |
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60 | (3) |
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We want [the President] to hear the wail of the children, who never have a chance to go to school, but work from ten to eleven hours a day in the textile mills |
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63 | (7) |
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My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution |
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The Social Causes of Blindness |
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70 | (3) |
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I do not believe that there is any one in this city of kind hearts who would willingly receive dividends if he knew that they were paid in part with blinded eyes and broken backs |
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Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You |
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73 | (6) |
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And so, my fellow Americans - ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world - ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man |
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79 | (13) |
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The essential humanity of man can be protected and preserved only where the government must answer - not just to the wealthy - not just to those of a particular religion - not just to those of a particular race - but to all of the people |
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92 | (7) |
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I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today! |
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99 | (7) |
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And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good-bye |
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106 | (6) |
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Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos |
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112 | (6) |
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I have in my hand fifty-seven cases of individuals who would appear to be either card-carrying members or certainly loyal to the Communist Party |
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118 | (6) |
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It is said that drink kills a man a minute. Suppose that we had a war that killed a man every five minutes. Would there not be howling for an end of bloodshed? This is more than ten times worse, for the soul is more valuable than the body |
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124 | (6) |
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The best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth. And that's why I'm here tonight. I want to tell you my side of the case |
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Sharing The American Dream |
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130 | (5) |
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Despite more than two centuries of moral and material progress, despite all our efforts to achieve a more perfect union, there are still Americans who are not sharing in the American Dream |
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135 | (10) |
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With all the creative energy at our command, let us begin an era of national renewal. Let us renew our determination, our courage, and our strength. And let us renew our faith and our hope |
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145 | (13) |
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The field of human rights is not one in which compromise on fundamental principles is possible |
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158 | (8) |
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself |
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They Day That Will Live In Infamy |
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166 | (3) |
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Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan |
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169 | (4) |
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I never know, never heard, even read in history anything so cruel as this court |
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I am so convinced to be right that if you would excute me two times, and if I could be reborn two other times, I would live again to do what I have done already |
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The Morality of Birth Control |
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173 | (11) |
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Birth control is an ethical necessity. It gives us control over one of the primordial forces of nature, to which in the past the majority of man-kind have been enslaved, and by which it has been cheapened and debased |
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A Call To Resist Illegitimate Authority |
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184 | (5) |
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We believe that every free man has a legal right and a moral duty to exert every effort to end this war |
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189 | (6) |
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The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East |
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Segregation Now! Segregation Tomorrow! Segregation Forever! |
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195 | (4) |
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I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say, Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever! |
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199 | (5) |
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AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself |
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204 | (7) |
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The fortunes of mankind are now in the hands of the plain people of the whole world |
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If I die in the morning, I'll die saying one thing - the ballot or the bullet |
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