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"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well."
-- Booker T. Washington
(1856-1915) Author
1911
http://libertytree.ca/quotes/Booker.T..Washington.Quote.4050
"A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups
start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left."
-- Justice William O. Douglas
(1898-1980), U. S. Supreme Court Justice
(1898-1980)
Source: Obituary, New York Times, 20 January 1980
http://libertytree.ca/quotes/William.O..Douglas.Quote.C5AF
"To dragoon man into the adoption of what we think right, is an intolerable tyranny."
-- William Godwin
(1756-1836) English journalist, political philosopher and novelist
Source: William Godwin, ENQUIRY CONCERNING POLITICAL JUSTICE (1798), Book IV, Chapter i, Paragraph 10.
http://libertytree.ca/quotes/William.Godwin.Quote.F54C
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