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“Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.”
“There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy.”
| Josephine Baker, Dancer (1906) |
| Chuck Barris, Producer (1929) |
| Roscoe Bartlett, Politician (1926) |
| Jefferson Davis, Leader (1808) |
| Allen Ginsberg, Poet (1926) |
| Hale Irwin, Athlete (1945) |
| Kelly Jones, Musician (1974) |
| Kerry King, Musician (1964) |
| Bert Lance, Politician (1931) |
| William Harvey, Scientist (1657) |
| Pope John XXIII, Clergyman (1963) |
| Franz Kafka, Novelist (1924) |
| Raj Kapoor, Actor (1988) |
| Ayatollah Khomeini, Statesman (1989) |