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• Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of…
• I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I…
• No man, with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. - Happy he who…
• Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the…
• I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and crony of…
• It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
• Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!
• I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some…
• I have been whipped, as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned by that…
• I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others…
• Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of…
• I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out.

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