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"Keep the environment clean and the waters clear as crystal."
"Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control."
"Neither humans nor the Gods that they have created are superior to old Mother Nature."
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"No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery."
"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."
"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."
"Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word."
"For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood."
"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."
"Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it."
"I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress."
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