"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."

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Source: Massachusetts. Board of Education, Horace Mann (1838). “Annual Report, Together with the Report of the Secretary of the Board: (1837-1841)”

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Horace Mann was an American educational reformer known for advocating public education and establishing the first state board of education in the U.S.

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