"Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
We went into slavery a piece of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery without a language; we came out speaking the proud Anglo-Saxon tongue. We went into slavery with slave chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands."
Booker T. Washington.
"Les mortels sont égaux; ce n'est pas la naissance,C'est la seule vertu qui fait la différence.
All men are equal; it is not their birth,But virtue itself that makes the difference. "
Voltaire.
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