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Gerrit Smith

"There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor."

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"There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor."

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"I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher."

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"It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it."
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"I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society."
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"There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous."
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"We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be."
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"Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers."
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"To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense."
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"I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric."
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"I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system."
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"Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man."
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"I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families."
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