No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
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A selected quote by William Ellery Channing.
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
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Vote: The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country
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It is never too late to be wise.