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"Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers."
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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."
"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."
"My truth could be very different than your truth."
"I see the truth in people because they can see the truth in me."
"The truth can do years of work in seconds."
"The Scripture is never subjected to one's own interpretations."
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"The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash."
"I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government."
"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."
"There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor."
"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion."
"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."
"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."
"We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be."
"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."
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