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Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.
William Allen White
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William Allen White
Age: 75 †
Born: 1868
Born: February 10
Died: 1944
Died: January 31
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If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.
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We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.
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I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.
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Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.
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I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all.
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The more riots that come out of our college campuses, the better the world for tomorrow.
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The facts fairly and honestly presented truth will take care of itself.
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If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and vigor, then there is something wrong with our colleges. The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow.
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Dip your pen into your arteries and write.
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I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
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Peace without justice is tyranny
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As a matter of fact student riots of one sort or another, protests against the order that is, kicks against college and university management indicate a healthy growth and a normal functioning of the academic mind.
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...if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked beef - staler in the chill dawn than illicit love.
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Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right.
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There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.
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We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.
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Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.
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Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
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Every one expects to go further than his father went every one expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart - to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.
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Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.
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