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"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."
"Some of today's slaves sleep on king size beds."
"We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore."
"To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable."
"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."
"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 secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."
"The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down."
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"The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race."
"Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil."
"Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico."
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