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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites read more
The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
 The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown
 To saints whose lives are better than his own.  
 The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown
 To saints whose lives are better than his own. 
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
 Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet
 From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low,
  Lest read more 
 Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet
 From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low,
  Lest I should fear and fall, and miss Thee so
   Who art not missed by any that entreat. 
I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say.
I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say.
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' read more
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.