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“The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.”
—18th-century English proverb.

“Please stop using the word “Negro.”... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are classed together as a single racial unit. Therefore, we are really truly colored people, and that is the only name in the English language which accurately describes us.”
—Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954)

“To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.”
—Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)