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“It is no disparagement to truth, that it can only prevail where reason prevails. War begins where reason ends. The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.” quote by Frederick Douglass — Download Open image

““It is no disparagement to truth, that it can only prevail where reason prevails. War begins where reason ends. The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.””

Frederick Douglass

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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.

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“I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes, - a justifier of the most appalling barbarity, - a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds, - and a dark shelter under, which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of the slaveholders find the strongest protection. Were I to…

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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

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