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Slavery Quotes by Patrick Henry
- I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.
- Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country, above all others,…
- I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if…
- Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know…
- The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a…
- The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If…
- It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, “Peace! Peace!†— but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!…
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- I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension… — Benjamin Franklin
- Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils.… — Isaiah Berlin
- The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? — W. E. B. Du Bois