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"We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore."
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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."
"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."
"You must resist the common urge toward the comforting narrative of divine law, toward fairy tales that imply some irrepressible justice. The enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters in your redemptive history. They were people turned to fuel for the American machine. Enslavement was not destined to end, and it is wrong to claim our present circumstance-no matter how improved-as the redemption for the lives of people who never asked for the posthumous, untouchable glory of dying for their children. Our triumphs can never compensate for this."
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"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."
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"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."
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