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Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. ↗

— William O. Douglas

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In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises. ↗

— Ken Thompson

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The soul that is within me no man can degrade. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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I spend a lot of time with my characters. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

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Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely. ↗

— Rita Dove

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I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day. ↗

— Rita Dove

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