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I do know, that gods are wont to make use of human instruments in approaching men. The Infinite finds expression in the finite, and the ideal is realised in the actual.

— J. E. Casely Hayford Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation (1911)

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No people could despise its own language, customs, and institutions and hope to avoid national death.

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There has never lived a people worth writing about who have not shaped out a destiny for themselves, or carved out their own opportunity.

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Unhappy they who raise their hopes upon the shifting sand.

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Love and Light dwelt together in the highest heaven.

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Mutual understanding, the true basis of all happy unions.

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