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Give me the ballot and I will move the world” may be the exclamation of the race despoiled of this right.
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This quote captures the desperation of those denied the right to vote, expressing a powerful yearning for political agency.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
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