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"The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down."
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"Some of today's slaves sleep on king size beds."

"To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable."

"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."

"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."

"Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North."

"What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow."

"If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls."

"Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary."
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"If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful."

"By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer."

"But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again, In babyhood."

"As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it."

"There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families."
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