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"Stardom can be a gilded slavery."
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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."
"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."
"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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"Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity."
"Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline."
"People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me."
"Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end."
"From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings."
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