Carolina QuotesCharles W. Chesnutt
North Carolina · born or raised1858–1932
American novelist, short story writer, essayist, activist (1858–1932)
- Raised in Fayetteville source
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Contempt for law is death to a republic, and this one has developed alarming symptoms of the disease.
The growth of liberty has been the constant struggle of the poor against the privileged classes; and the goal of that struggle has ever been the equality of all men before the law.
No country is free in which the way upward is not open for every man to try, and for every properly qualified man to attain whatever of good the community life may offer.
The education which one can demand as a right is likely to do more good than the education for which one must sue as a favor.
There can be no middle ground between justice and injustice, between the citizen and the serf.