But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right. (Ray Stannard Baker)

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

Ray Stannard Baker

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