Robert Purvis quotes
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“I am proud to be an American Citizen.”
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“I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.”
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“It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.”
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“. . . what a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave trade, contained in different school books, have been lost sight of, or been subject to the pruning knife of the slaveholding expurgatorial system!”
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“I'm proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It's just another part of me.”
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“I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.”
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“Be proud of your people when you don't have to be ashamed of any it's social class”
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“Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.”
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