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West, Mae. Goodness Had Nothing to Do with It: The Autobiography of Mae West. Prentice Hall, 1959, ch. 21.

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Berry, Wendell. The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture. Sierra Club Books, 1977, ch. 7.

If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.

Johnnie Cochran

On the glove that O.J. Simpson allegedy wore in the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

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Superior Court of California for and in the County of Los Angeles. The People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson. 3 Oct. 1995. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/oj/etc/script.html.

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Adams, John. Letter to Hezekiah Niles. 13 Feb. 1818.

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“From John Adams to Hezekiah Niles, 13 February 1818,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-6854.

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Franklin, Benjamin. Letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy. 13 Nov. 1789.

I was born by the river
In a little tent
And just like the river
I've been runnin' ever since
It's been a long, a long time comin'
But I know a change gon' come.

Sam Cooke

A Change Is Gonna Come

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Cooke, Sam. "A Change Is Gonna Come." Ain't That Good News. RCA Victor, 1964.

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Rogers, Fred. Commencement address to the Dartmouth Class of 2002. Commencement cermony. 2002, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Marble Faun

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni. Vol. 2, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860, ch. 24.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun, edited by Susan Manning. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 24.

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Johnson, Lyndon B. Comment to his press secretary George Christian. 27 Feb. 1968, Washington, DC, USA.

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Johnson, Lyndon B. Quoted in The Powers That Be, by David Halberstam. University of Illinois Press, 2000, pt. 3.

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Douglass, Frederick. "West India Emancipation." 3 Aug. 1857, Canandaigua, NY, USA.

This right of privacy...is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

Byron White

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White, Byron. United States, Supreme Court. Roe v. Wade. United States Reports, vol. 410, 22 Jan. 1973, pp. 113-. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/410/113/.

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1953, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

William Faulkner

Requiem for a Nun

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Faulkner, William. Requiem for a Nun. Random House, 1951.

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Faulkner, William. Requiem for a Nun. Vintage, 2012.

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Allen, Woody. Quoted in "He's Woody Allen's 1‐1‐Silent Partner." Written by Susan Braudy. The New York Times, 21 Aug. 1977.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

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Dillard, Annie. The Writing Life. Harper & Row, 1989.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions." 27 Jan. 1838, Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, IL, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Address to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, January 27, 1838." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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Madison, James [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 51, The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments." New York Packet, 8 Feb. 1788.

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Madison, James. "No. 51: How to maintain: make the parts check each other. Also, a federal system divides power further.--Madison (or Hamilton)." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

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Rock, Chris. Bigger & Blacker. HBO, 10 July 1999.

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Guthrie, Woodie. This Land Is Your Land. c. 1945.