New York Constitution/constitutional Commission of 1872-1873

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    “And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there.... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don’t want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.”
    —Marian Wright Edelman (20th century)