"Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before."
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Charles Fletcher Dole
1825 – 1905
Charles Fletcher Dole (1845, Brewer, Maine – 1927, Hawaii) was an influential Unitarian minister, speaker, and writer in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts, and Chairman of the Association to Abolish War.
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