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I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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