"I can hear another drum beating for the dead that rise, whom Nature's beast fears as they come."

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"I need not repeat here the multitude of reproachful epithets expressive of the same sentiment among ourselves. All who are not to the manor born have been made to feel the lash and sting of these repr…"

— Frederick Douglass

Social Activism1818–1895

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"I started to watch the ocean. I was not looking at it like I used to; it became like a grave."

— Mati Diop

Entertainment1982

#nature

"Understand therefore, that one thing in the scripture representeth divers things. A serpent figureth Christ in one place, and the devil in another; and a lion doth likewise. Christ by leaven signifiet…"

— William Tyndale

Social Activism1494–1536

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"Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about their slaves? If they do, I wish to a…"

— Abraham Lincoln

Politics1744–1786

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