The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor country; their facilities for educating their children, even up to the point of reading and writing, were very limited; their interest in the contest was very meagre--what there was, if they had been capable of seeing it, was with the North; they too needed emancipation.

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You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends

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We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.

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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

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I do have my ducks in line if I want to do it, but I'd love to see the Republicans pick somebody that was going to win and take over this country and frankly, to use the expression, 'Make America great again.' -Donald Trump

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My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. ― John F. Kennedy

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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

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A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that’s what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.

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Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.

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Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see. – Mark Twain

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