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No man of intelligence can hope, in this age of the world, to perpetuate that which is wrong and destructive, by bravado and threatening--by refusing to look it in the face, or to allow others to scrutinize it.
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gutenberg.orgWilliam Seward: “No man of intelligence can hope, in this age of the world, to perpetuate that which is wrong and destructive, by bravado…”
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Seward emphasizes the importance of confronting uncomfortable truths rather than avoiding them.
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It should be your care therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children, and exalt their courage, to accelerate and animate their industry and activity, to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice…
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