"Making their lives a prayer."

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“The Whittier Bi-centennial Recording Project, featuring the poem "Snow-Bound" read by Michael Maglaras”

“Perish with him the folly that seeks through evil good.”

“What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,—generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.”

“Whittier Family Homestead and Birthplace of John Greenleaf Whittier”

“Their right, like that of their white fellow-citizens, dates back to the dread arbitrament of war. Their bones whiten every stricken field of the Revolution; their feet tracked with blood the snows of Jersey; their toil built up every fortification south of the Potomac; they shared the famine and nakedness of Valley Forge, and the pestilential horrors of the old Jersey prison ship.”

“John Greenleaf Whittier Home, Amesbury, Massachusetts”

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"I went up to my room, up the dusty stairs of Bunker Hill, past the soot-covered frame buildings along that dark street, sand and oil and grease choking the futile palm trees standing like dying prison…"

— John Fante

Literature1909–1983

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"The courts have properly determined that a man should neither be able to force a woman to have an abortion nor to prevent her from having one, should she so choose. Justice therefore dictates that if …"

— Karen DeCrow

Politics1937–2014

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"Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and degradation every day. America will be of no avail to them. Their generals …"

— Khaled Mashal

Politics1956

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"In this way I can speak of an American Hinduism and call myself an American and a Hindu – an American connected with the land and a Hindu connected with the spirit and soul of that land. Hinduism has …"

— David Frawley

Medicine1950

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