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— Michael J. Sullivan"Power rises to the top like cream and dominates the weak with cruelty disguised as -- and often even believed to be -- benevolence."
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Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. ... All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! ... Your interference is doing him positive injury.
— Frederick Douglass
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