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"No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery."
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"If you have bought the law enforcement department, then you have done nothing wrong when you willfully break multiple laws."
"Humans do worse things with money rather than for money."
"Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing?"
"The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party."
"Very few of the common people realize that the political and legal systems have been corrupted by decades of corporate lobbying."
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
"The biggest criminals that I have met in life are working for the government. They make mass murderers look like amateurs."
"Therefore, until the day I die, I am going to do what I can, regardless of the cost to me, to try to stop this awful corruption that is destroying our beloved democracy."
"All they do is warm their seats for their long tenures and eventually even their seats get dilapidated with the amount of money they hog in illegally and the only way it comes out is by tilting their huge pot-bellied frames to one side and emitting poisonous gases that not only depreciate their beloved seats but also the nation as a whole and then they shout 'Global Warming.' Hallelujah!"
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"Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it."
"If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year."
"There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious."
"There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment."
"But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns."
"When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave."
"When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live."
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