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"In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous."
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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
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"In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice."
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"There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell."
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"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
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"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more."
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"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."
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"We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion."
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"Be different to make a difference."
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"It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition."
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"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation."
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"And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood."
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"I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years."
Time
"In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now."
History
"America is good enough for us."
Patriotism
"The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky."
Politics
"However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children."
Family
"Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond."
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"Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to employ them."
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"In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous."
Difference
"Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today."
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