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“If today there is a proper American sphere of influence it is this fragile sphere called earth upon which all men live and share a common fatea sphere where our influence must be for peace and justice.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (19111978)
“Down the road, on the right hand, on Bristers Hill, lived Brister Freeman, a handy Negro, slave of Squire Cummings once.... Not long since I read his epitaph in the old Lincoln burying-ground, a little on one side, near the unmarked graves of some British grenadiers who fell in the retreat from Concord,where he is styled Sippio Brister,MScipio Africanus he had some title to be called,a man of color, as if he were discolored.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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