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rhett o rick

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5. Frederick Douglass: “Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the

Reply to marmar (Reply #3)

Sat Jul 6, 2013, 09:54 AM

Jul 2013

exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.”

The revolution is waiting for the spark.

The centrists will have to choose a side. “There is a special place reserved in hell for those that do nothing in a time of crisis.” Dante.

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Frederick Douglass: “Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the rhett o rick Jul 2013 #5

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