Word: egalit
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...with white hair who writes to you, one of those teachers who have taught in the villages "hidden in the folds of France" as well as in the fine cities of the plain. Here as there, within these whitewashed walls where the noble device of the Republic-Liberté, Egalité, Fraternite-imposes itself on the eyes of all as the glorious label of a regime, she teaches moral cleanliness, courage in action, respect for the given word, tolerance. . . . May those who wrought the last hours of our defeat be forever castigated in the history of our country...
...solemn hour for lovers of freedom, especially in the U. S. Although the Declaration of Independence was written 13 years before the Bastille fell, the American and French Revolutions had the same ideological roots, and in the minds of Americans and Frenchmen alike the words Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité evoked the same ideals as Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. For a century and a quarter the U. S. and France watched those ideals spread across most of the world. For the last few terribly quick years, together they have watched them crumble...
...order to please U. S. tourists some proprietors of cafés and night restaurants in the Latin Quarter and Montmartre decided to ignore the national motto Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité and bar Negroes from entering their establishments...