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"It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it."
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"Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern."
"The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings."
"The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern."
"Do be careful. I can't replace you as easily as all that."
"My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her."
"Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment."
"I don't have a car.'His eyes sliced into mine. 'I walked here,' I explained. 'I'm on foot.''Angel,' he said in a way that sounded like he sincerely hoped I was joking."
"Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire."
"It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him."
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"It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary."
"There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor."
"I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill."
"God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men."
"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion."
"It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed."
"But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash."
"We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be."
"When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning."
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