If you treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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J. W. von Goethe
We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
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J. W. von Goethe
Whatever you do or dream you can do – begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
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Frederick Douglass
The destiny of the colored American . . . is the destiny of America.
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Frederick Douglass
I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.
The Bill of Rights isn’t for the prom queen. The Bill of Rights isn’t for the high-school quarterback. They’re gonna be treated fairly; they always do fine. The Bill of Rights is truly for those who might be unorthodox, who might have an unusual idea, who might not look like everybody else.
The Bill of Rights is to protect minorities, whether it’s the colour of your skin or the shade of your ideology.
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J. H. Levy
Our intellectual and moral natures come into play only when we discriminate and decide for ourselves. Just so far as this discrimination and decision are taken away from us, we are deprived of the most essential element of our manhood and womanhood, and are turned into mere tools propelled from without.
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J. H. Levy
We seem to have come upon a time of utter infidelity to general principles, except that most vicious one that there are no general principles.
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J. H. Levy
It is useless to consume our energies in mere verbal disputes. I must, however, caution students that definition is not a matter of indifference. Nine-tenths of the embarrassments which surround most philosophical questions arise from the difficulty of getting a firm hold of them. When this is done, the solution is comparatively easy. Until it is done no solution can be rationally hoped for.