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Political speech2 quotes
If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. — Frederick Douglass · 1857The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice. — Barack Obama · 1965Folk music1 quote
Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe
We shall overcome, some day. — Pete Seeger · 1962Political literature1 quote
The march of social progress is like a long and straggling parade, with the seers and prophets at its head and a smug minority bringing up the rear. — Pierre Berton · 1968Sociology1 quote
Believe it or not-and I know that most people do not-violence has declined over long stretches of time, and today we may be living in the most peaceable era in our species' existence. — Steven Pinker · 2011Soul music1 quote
Ooh, child, things are gonna get easier
Ooh child, things'll get brighter. — The Five Stairsteps · 1970