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Thomas Starr King

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It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.


— Thomas Starr King


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Do not weep for me.


— Thomas Starr King


#weep

I know it is all right. I wish I could make you feel so, I wish I could describe my feelings.


— Thomas Starr King


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I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.


— Thomas Starr King


#california #came #cotton #down #flag

The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer.


— Thomas Starr King


#could #country #man #orator #silence

Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton.


— Thomas Starr King


#mad #only #pounds #though #ton

What a privilege it is to be an American!


— Thomas Starr King


#privilege

What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.


— Thomas Starr King


#ever #history #known #live #other






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King’s church and tomb in San Francisco are designated historical monuments. He is sometimes referred to as "the orator who saved the nation. Two streets in the city (Starr King Way on which the church is located and King Street in the Mission Bay neighborhood) are named for him as is the Starr King Openspace a park in the Potrero Hill neighborhood.

He is sometimes referred to as "the orator who saved the nation. "[citation needed]. Thomas Starr King (December 17 1824 – March 4 1864) was an American Unitarian and Unitarian minister influential in California politics during the American Civil War.

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