Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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