"Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers."

Truth, Rights, Man, Mercy

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"Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers."

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"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."

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"Sometimes dead is better."

Stephen King, American Author

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Steven Redhead, British Author

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"Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. It took years for me to discover that the first step in finding out the truth is to begin unlearning almost everything adults had taught me, and to start doing all the things they'd told me NOT to do. Their main pitch was that achievement equaled happiness, when all you had to do was study rock stars, or movie stars, or them, to see that they were mostly miserable. They were all running around in mazes like everyone else."

Anne Lamott, American Author

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"The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is I'm full of shit."

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"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."

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"I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government."

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"Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance."

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"The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him."

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"As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men."

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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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"I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government."

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"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."

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"The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash."

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"We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be."

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