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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.
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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You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger? Only when free utterance is suppressed is it needed, and when it is needed it is most vital to justice.
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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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Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.
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The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker.
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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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