“We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; — Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: from the 1873 poem Boston, written for the centennial of the… Continue reading Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
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Martin Luther King Quote
“From every mountainside, let freedom ring. When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be… Continue reading Martin Luther King Quote
Martin Luther King Quote
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. Source: from the speech “I Have a Dream”, Washington DC, August 28, 1963
Martin Luther King Quote
“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. Source: from the speech “I Have a Dream”, Washington DC, August 28, 1963
Abraham Lincoln Quote
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” — Abraham Lincoln Source: November 19, 1865 speech known as The Gettysburg Address, delivered at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA. (Bliss copy)