"An individual is as superb as a..." - Quote by Walt Whitman
An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation.
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“I dreamed in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth; I dreamed that was the new City of Friends; Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love—it led the rest; It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city, And in all their looks and words.”
“I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name.”
“And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.”
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“Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.”
“In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.”
“There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you.”
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“Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.”
“In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.”
“Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation.”