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

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

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"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."

Helen Hunt Jackson, American Writer

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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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"Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico."

David Wilmot, American Activist

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

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"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."

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"It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union."

John H. Reagan, American Politician

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"In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation."

Samuel Hopkins, American Clergyman

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"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!"

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"I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase."

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"I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag."

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"Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men."

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"In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?"

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"I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia."

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"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."

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"I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers."

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"I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people."

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