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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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These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws. ↗

— Steve Finley

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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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Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible. ↗

— Rita Dove

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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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In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things. ↗

— Rita Dove

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Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

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