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See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.

— Jesse Jackson

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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

That's all Hymie wants to talk about is Israel. Every time you go to Hymietown that's all they want to talk about.

America is a liberal idea. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses - not your rich, and your elite and your aristocrats.

"We cannot hide behind the law and not have mercy" Mr. Jackson said, calling the withholding of food and water inhumane, immoral and unnecessary.

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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