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"To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable."
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"The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down."
"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."
"What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow."
"We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore."
"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."
"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."
"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."
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"In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer's yard."
"When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time."
"The most upsetting thing about Society's attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman."
"You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe, you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do."
"Because of self-doubt, the fear of failure, or laziness, most people usually bite off way less than they can chew."
"Back in the day, it was either both a mother and her daughter had pubic hair, or the daughter didn't. Today, in many a case, the mother is the one who doesn't."
"The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to-instead of them-change reality."
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