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In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong. ↗

— William Weld

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Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? ↗

— Walt Whitman

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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood. ↗

— Roger Wicker

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I write to understand as much as to be understood. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

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Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

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Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

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From where they stood, they could see the castle. ↗

— Frank Yerby

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I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause. ↗

— Cole Younger

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