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The happy and the powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

This only will I say, that the most crushing of misfortune's burdens is, that as soon as a charge is fastened upon the unhappy, they are believed to have deserved their sufferings.

To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

Such exclusion goes over 'the very brink of constitutional power' and falls into the ugly abyss of racism.

Brothers and sisters we were by blood; but slavery had made us strangers.

Slavery does away with fathers, as it does away with families.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's Presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear.

It is confidence in the men and women who administer the judicial system that is the true backbone of the rule of law.

The position of the Negro today in America is the tragic but inevitable consequence of centuries of unequal treatment.

Thus, even as the colonists embarked on a course to secure their own freedom and equality, they ensured perpetuation of the system that deprived a whole race of those rights.

Well sped, my boy, before the world had dubbed your ambition insolence, had held your ideals unattainable, and taught you to cringe and bow.

The calculated killing of a human being by the State involves, by its very nature, a denial of the executed person's humanity.