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Resonant Thoughts

"Europe and Africa are already here, and the Indian was here before either. He stands today between the two extremes of black and white, too proud to claim fraternity with either, and yet too weak to w…"

— Frederick Douglass

Social Activism1818–1895

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"Some one, I think it was Isaac Disraeli, said that he who did not make himself acquainted with the best thoughts of the greatest writers would one day be mortified to observe that his best thoughts ar…"

— Edward Grey

Politics1862–1933

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"It is many a year ago, they say, when the vintage was last gathered in from the vineyards that I knew, where it is all desert now. It was a radiant day, and the people of the city were dancing by the …"

— Edward Plunkett

Military1808–1668

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