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“There are complete men and incomplete men. If you would be a complete man, put all of your soul's strength into all of your life's actions.”

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Eugenio Maria de Hostos

Eugenio Maria de Hostos, born on January 11, 1839 and died on August 11, 1903, was a prominent Cuban lawyer, writer, political activist, and nationalist. He had a profound impact on Cuban cultural and political life. more

“By educating women to use all their brains, men will not only be just, but will also ensure the future of a new social order in which women will apply their intelligence and warm feelings to the problems of living. Men are fools to entrust the upbringing of their sons, whom they expect to grow up to love freedom, to women who have never known freedom themselves.”

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“Lend your light to the blind. Why should the wickedness of men irritate you, when it is only blindness?”

Men Should Light Evil Blind Good And Evil Blindness Wickedness

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“All men are good when free from passion, interest, or error.”

Men Passion Interest Goodness Errors

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“Ideas are born, they struggle, triumph, change, and they are transformed; but is there a dead idea which in the end does not live on, transformed into a broader and clearer goal?”

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“When you cannot be just through virtue, be so through pride.”

Justice Virtue Pride

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“Nearly all human beings love, but nearly none know how to love.”

Knows Love Humans Human Beings Know How How To Love

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“Slavery has as many shapes among us as there are things we need.”

Needs Shapes Slavery

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“Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his growth-as on the question of civil rights-he functioned like most men, as a product of his background.”

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“Our political parties exist for no other reason than to win power; they are not ideological debating societies designed to present a particular political philosophy and to persuade voters to accept it.”

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Author:Tom Wicker

“Consensus politics is a cyclical thing-in order to accumulate power, one must dispose of it, and as one disposes of it, one must accumulate more power to replace it. In financial terms, a dollar must be spent to make a dollar-or two, if things go well.”

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Author:Tom Wicker

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