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“Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.”

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“A treacherous President stood in the way; and it can be easily seen how reluctant good men might be to admit an apostasy which…

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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is…

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“But I should be false in the earliest sentiments of my soul, if I suppressed the opinion. I prefer to be true to myself,…

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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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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…

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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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“We have all met a class of men, very remarkable for their activity, and who yet make but little headway in life; men who,…

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“The fatal poison of irresponsible power was already in her hands, and soon commenced its infernal work. That cheerful eye, under the influence of…

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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as…

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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

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