Edward Gibbon/later Years - 1789%e2%80%931794

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    “My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.”
    —Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)

    “These young women have had four years of very special space.... This has been special space. This has been safe space. But when they graduate, they will begin to deal on a daily basis, all day long, month after month, year after year, with the realities that still haunt our nation.”
    —Johnnetta Betsch Cole (b. 1936)