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Darkness and silence are excellent for knaves and tyrants; but the attempt to command the one or the other in the North, changes the knave to an imbecile and the tyrant to a fool.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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Beecher argues that oppressive forces thrive in darkness, while truth and justice flourish in the light.
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