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Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Aid Bondage Could Declaration Eternal Framers Graves Held Include Independence Making Now Our Recognize Rise Sacred Thought Till Torn Universal

Keywords: Abandon


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Archaeologists have been digging up thousands of graves of people called Scythians by the Greeks. They turn out to be people whose women fought, hunted, rode horses, used bows and arrows, just like the men.

~Adrienne Mayor

Topics: Arrows Been Bows Digging Fought Graves Greeks Horses Hunted Just Like Men Out People Rode Thousands Turn Up Used Whose Women

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Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

~Alexander Smith

Topics: Every Graves His Life Liking Man Marked Personal Road

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I think dead humans rising from their graves with little to no sense of who they were in their past lives to mindlessly roam the earth consigning others to the same fate would be a bit depressing.

~Alfred Enoch

Topics: Bit Dead Depressing Earth Fate Graves Humans Little Lives No Sense Others Past Rising Roam Same Sense Think Were Who Would I Think

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Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected.

~Allen West

Topics: Across American Country Day Fallen Forgotten Graves Ignored Many Meaning Memorial Neglected Nowadays Sadly Traditions Worse

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Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Ask Dream Earth Graves Greatness Heaven Here Now Our Ours Should Us Waiting Whether Yourself

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The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.

~Carter G. Woodson

Topics: Alternative Down Facing Going Graves Manufacturers Merchants Negroes Production Proportion Rising Sphere Supply

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To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Beating Cemetery Drum Funeral Graves Heart Like Lonely Marches Near Solemn

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My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

~Chris Bohjalian

Topics: Genocide Grandparents Graves Like Many Most Stories Survivors Took

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I was thinking of my father's family. I can find their graves, but not that much about them. They didn't do anything notable enough to be in the records of newspapers.

~Daniel Woodrell

Topics: About Anything Enough Family Father Find Graves Much Newspapers Notable Records Them Thinking I Can

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