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“Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.”
—James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)

“The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.”
—James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)

“A race cannot be purified from without.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)