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"Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary."

"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."

"The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down."

"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."

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

"Some of today's slaves sleep on king size beds."

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

"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."

"We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore."
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"Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies."

"They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves."

"People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth."

"Don't go into the business of pleasing people. You can't please everybody. Simply do your best at what you do."
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