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“I am gradually drifting to the opinion that this Rebellion can only be crushed finally by either the execution of all the traitors or the abolition of slavery. Crushed, I mean, so as to remove all danger of its breaking out again in the future.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
“Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything it hasthe inventions, the histories, every scrap of fact. But there is one kind of knowledgeinfinitely precious, time- resistant more than monuments, here to be passed between the generations in any way it may be: never to be used. And that is poetry.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (19131980)
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