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Letter "C" » claims
«I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of the miserable, the desolate, the outcast. I come as the advocate of helpless, forgotten, insane men and women; of beings sunk to a condition from which the unconcerned world would start with real horror.»
Author: Dorothea Dix
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Philanthropist)
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Keywords:
advocate,
claims,
desolate,
desolated,
desolating,
helpless,
horror,
legislature,
Legislatures,
outcast,
sunk,
The Advocate,
unconcerned
«Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.»
«I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.»
«If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.»
«Of all that gives politeness birth,Of all that claims to please,In motion, manners, or in mirth,The surest source is ease.»
«It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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President)
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Keywords:
claims,
difficult,
feels,
God is greater,
kindred,
made,
miserable,
The Claim,
The Great,
while,
Worthies,
worthiest,
worthy
«For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.»
Author: Albert Camus
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Essayist,
Novelist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
accompanied,
barbarous,
claims,
death instinct,
death penalty,
equilibrium,
instincts,
in check,
penalty,
refinements,
warring,
war crime
«Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.»
«Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.»
«Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.»